GE Aerospace Successfully Completes Supersonic Flight Tests of a Solid-Fueled Ramjet at Kennedy Space Center

GE Aerospace today announced the successful supersonic captive carry flight tests of its Atmospheric Test of Launched ...
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GE Aerospace completes first solid-fuel ramjet flights for hypersonic program

GE Aerospace tested its solid-fuel ramjet system at supersonic speeds on a Starfighter F-104 over Kennedy Space Center, a ...
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GE Aerospace flies hypersonic engine with no moving parts

What has zero moving parts, yet can blast an aerial vehicle to velocities beyond Mach 5? The answer is the recently flight-tested Atmospheric Test of Launched Airbreathing System (ATLAS) powered by a ...
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GE Flies Captive-Carry Tests Of Solid Fuel Ramjet

The ramjet, called the Atmospheric Test of Launched Airbreathing System (ATLAS) Flight Test Vehicle, was carried on a Starfighters F-104 at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The tests included three ...
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GE Aerospace Tests Two Rotating Detonation Ramjets

GE Aerospace has recently successfully demonstrated two different rotating detonation combustion (RDC) engines—a ...
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Never-Before-Seen Tests of the US's Most Hardcore Artillery

Smoke billows, and the ground shakes as a howitzer cannon roars to life, launching a 155-millimeter shell into the sky. But this is no ordinary artillery shell—this is the Ramjet 155, a revolutionary ...
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SR-72 ‘Son of Blackbird’ Could Hit 4,000 Miles Per Hour

Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 Son of Blackbird or “Darkstar” aims to replace the SR-71 with hypersonic ISR—and possibly strike—using a turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) that blends a turbofan for ...