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April 26, 2019 10:00 am

Chinese University Tests Fully Recoverable Hypersonic Winged Rocket

hackingbear shares a report: Xiamen University of China, in partnership with a private aerospace company in Beijing, claims to have launched and landed a hypersonic prototype winged rocket that could travel faster than five times the speed of sound. The success of the experiment means that Chinese engineers are one step closer to building a full-fledged rocket that is capable reaching anywhere in the world within two hours and be recycled. The rocket, named Jia Geng 1, reached a maximum altitude of 26.2 kilometers (16.3 miles) -- about one-third of the way to space -- before returning to the ground during the landmark launch on Tuesday over Gobi Desert, said the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Xiamen University. The design enables the rocket to ride on two layers of extremely hot gas known as "shock waves" -- one under its belly and the other in the air-inlet duct for its ramjet engine, unlike other experimental hypersonic vehicles such as Boeing's X-51 Waverider which rides on one layer of "shock wave," according to South China Morning Post citing members of the team. The new design has some intriguing advantages: it can make the transition from supersonic to hypersonic speeds more smoothly, create more lift, and allow the aircraft to travel farther using less fuel.

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