DART AE Achieves Sustained Mach 5+ Hypersonic Flight
Mission overview
First flight for Australian hydrogen-fulled hypersonic aircraft
Hypersonix's DART AE will be deployed into a suborbital hypersonic flight environment, using Rocket Lab's HASTE rocket, where it will gather critical data across propulsion, aerothermal performance and vehicle control.
Mission update
Cassowary Vex mission
Launching on “That’s Not A Knife” with Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch services and space systems, this first DART flight is scheduled to launch no earlier than late February from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 within the Virginia Spaceport Authority’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia.
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