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Leveraging Public-Private Partnership to Meet the Hypersonic Challenge
On March 9, the landscape and history of high-speed flight changed dramatically when Stratolaunch successfully flew the Talon-A1 (TA-1) hypersonic test vehicle off the West Coast of California. TA-1 flew at high supersonic speeds approaching Mach 5, or nearly five times the speed of sound. On this maiden flight, the vehicle didn’t break any speed…
