{"id":6843,"date":"2010-04-26T13:54:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T22:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=6843"},"modified":"2010-04-26T13:54:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T22:24:12","slug":"hypersonic-glider-test-fails-over-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=6843","title":{"rendered":"Hypersonic glider test fails over the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2010\/04\/26\/national\/a143633D74.DTL\">http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2010\/04\/26\/national\/a143633D74.DTL<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>US defense agency&#8217;s hypersonic glider test fails<\/h2>\n<p>Monday, April 26, 2010<\/p>\n<p>(04-26) 14:36 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. defense agency says contact with an experimental hypersonic glider was lost after it launched from California&#8217;s Vandenberg Air Force Base last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 was launched atop a booster rocket on Thursday. It was supposed to separate and glide at many times the speed of sound to a splashdown near Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said Monday that the glider did separate and a preliminary review indicates it achieved controlled flight before telemetry was lost.<\/p>\n<p>The agency says engineers are trying to determine what happened and where it came down.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military is trying to develop technology to respond to threats around the globe at speeds of Mach 20 or greater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2010\/04\/26\/national\/a143633D74.DTL US defense agency&#8217;s hypersonic glider test fails Monday, April 26, 2010 (04-26) 14:36 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8212; A U.S. defense agency says contact with an experimental hypersonic glider was lost after it launched from California&#8217;s Vandenberg Air Force Base last week. The Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 was launched atop a booster rocket on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=6843\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hypersonic glider test fails over the Pacific&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6845,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions\/6845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}