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Lockheed Hypersonic Plane Hits Mach 20, Crashes Into Pacific

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Martin Corp. crashed into the Pacific Ocean after reaching about 20 times the speed of sound and flying for more than nine minutes, a Pentagon agency said.
The experimental Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, or HTV-2, lifted off today in a Minotaur IV rocket made by Orbital Sciences Corp. at 7:45 a.m. local time from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, according the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is funding the program and overseeing the tests. The agency announced the launch and mission updates on Twitter.

The arrowhead-shaped aircraft soared to the edge of space, separated from the booster and was "on track" to enter its glide phase, during which it would reach speeds of Mach 20, or about 13,000 miles per hour, before diving into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Kwajalein Atoll, according to the agency.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/11/bloomberg1376-LPRURT07SXKX01-0P0KTANOTGB643TB3N6SREP293.DTL#ixzz1Ul4CXGHp
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