Hypersonic plane lost

[James48843]

DARPA says it lost contract with the 13,000 hypersonic unmanned planed tested this morning.

U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) "says in Twitter postings that its unmanned Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2) was launched Thursday atop a rocket, successfully separated from the booster and entered the mission's glide phase. The agency says telemetry was subsequently lost, but released no details."

more:

http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/post/2011/08/hypersonic-flight/414737/1


Dang- where did they put that thing?


I wonder how much THAT cost the U.S. tax payer....

 

[James48843]

Ah-here it is.

It cost $320 million dollars so far.

So far, we have nine minutes of recorded flight data for our investment.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...LPRURT07SXKX01-0P0KTANOTGB643TB3N6SREP293.DTL

 

[FAB1]

Dont Worry. He'll be right on it as soon as he finishes a nice Havana, glass of cognac and a couple of other things...

 

[burrocrat]

Hypersonic plane, yeah I heard about that.

Dont Worry. He'll be right on it as soon as he finishes a nice Havana, glass of cognac and a couple of other things...

Of course he's already on it FAB1, you know the drill.

9 minutes is long enough to establish glide path and confirm systems go.

After which it became 'lost', and 'accidentally' went off course.

More details will be released at the appropriate time once the subsequently captured data has been analyzed and is no longer actionable or necessary for matters of, well you know, those kind of matters.

 

[Buster]

DARPA says it lost contract with the 13,000 hypersonic unmanned planed tested this morning.



....

Would someone care to translate this?

 

[malyla]

Would someone care to translate this?

It's in a degrading orbit around the earth or it's crashed somewhere on the planet (hopefully in an unpopulated region).

 

[burrocrat]

Would someone care to translate this?

I think he meant 'planked' there at the end, it makes more since that way. besides, he's been on a funny kick lately, might be the Chivas.

 

[grandma]

:cheesy:-no doubt it was purloined by that fellow we watched who had the rocket strapped to his back & gave us a dizzying view of blasting through the hills and dales and valleys and mountains and gorges ....

(obviously I don't recall just where he did fly -I got extremely dizzy, discumbobulated, & sea-sick on the ride!)