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Result: Hope to learn from failed flight

The ball may now be back in NASA's court. Can NASA make a scramjet fly?

Aussie Scramjet Test Fails

An attempt by a group of international researchers to achieve the world’s first supersonic combustion flight has not succeeded.



However the HyShot research team say they have recovered valuable data from yesterday’s rocket launch which will assist them in future attempts to flight test air-breathing scramjets....

A second experimental launch was scheduled for next week, but it is now subject to the satisfactory outcome of the investigation into the October 30 flight....



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