{"id":9278,"date":"2011-08-11T13:24:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T21:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9278"},"modified":"2011-08-11T13:24:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T21:54:36","slug":"darpa-loses-a-hypersonic-aircraft-over-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9278","title":{"rendered":"DARPA loses a hypersonic aircraft over the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/breaking\/127539618.html\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Pentagon agency reported losing contact with an unmanned hypersonic aircraft over the Pacific Ocean less than an hour after launch today.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is funding the program and overseeing the tests.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s flight was the aircraft&#8217;s second and final planned test flight. The first attempt on April 22, 2010, ended nine minutes into flight when the on-board computer detected a glitch and forced a splashdown. Data from the maiden voyage indicated the craft reached speeds of between Mach 17 and Mach 22.<\/p>\n<p>A flight from New York to Los Angeles at such speeds would take less than 12 minutes, according to the Pentagon agency.<\/p>\n<p>The project began in 2003 and cost $320 million, Eric Butterbaugh, a spokesman for the agency, said in an e-mail. The goal is to develop technology that could deliver a non-nuclear warhead anywhere in the world within an hour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But don&#8217;t worry, says\u00a0 Tom Collina, research director at the Arms Control Association. The aircraft is &#8220;unlikely to be confused as a nuclear weapon because its trajectory is unlike the Bell-shaped curve of a ballistic missile.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Whew, I feel better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg reports: A Pentagon agency reported losing contact with an unmanned hypersonic aircraft over the Pacific Ocean less than an hour after launch today. 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9278\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DARPA loses a hypersonic aircraft 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":[],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-9278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-nuclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278"}],"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=9278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9280,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions\/9280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}