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Flight Test Results for Scramjet Engine (Follow-up Report #2)

March 30, 2006
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to provide
more information about our scramjet engine flight test that used the
HyShot flight experiment system at the Woomera range in Australia at
11:40 a.m. on March 30, 2006 (Japan Standard Time, JST.) The actual
flight test operations were commissioned to the University of
Queensland (UQ) in Australia.

The UQ informed JAXA that the highest altitude reached by the rocket
was about 290 km, which is approximately 10% lower than the scheduled
320 km, according to the telemetry data sent from the HyShot.

We will continue to analyze the telemetry data to find out the impact
of the deviated rocket flight on the scramjet engine. We will inform
you of the results as soon as we receive them.

(Reference press releases)

(1) Commissioned Flight Test for Scramjet Engine (March 20, 2006)

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2006/03/20060320_ramjet_e.html

(2) Flight Test Results for Scramjet Engine (March 30, 2006)

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2006/03/20060330_ramjet_e.html

(3) Flight Test Results for Scramjet Engine (Follow-up Report)
(March 30, 2006)

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2006/03/20060330_ramjet2_e.html

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