R&D laboratory Sandia National Laboratories tested the hypersonic weapon components from Nasa’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Wednesday 26 October.
According to a statement from the Navy, the test flight evaluated hypersonic weapon communications and navigation equipment and advanced materials that can withstand the heat in a “realistic hypersonic environment”.
In this test, experts fired a sounding rocket from the launch pad and conducted various experiments to gather data and learn more about the high-tech electronics and heat-resistant materials used in hypersonic missile components.
“The launch today went extremely well,” said Vice Admiral Johnny Wolfe, the director of strategic systems programmes, who oversaw the test. “We’ve just gotten done looking through our key observables, and every piece of data we wanted to collect – at least preliminarily – has shown that we collected all that data.”
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