Story by Teri Carnicelli | Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division | 07.01.2024
Rocketry experts from Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s (NSWC PHD) White Sands Detachment in New Mexico successfully conducted the first U.S.-based flight of the Hypersonic Test Bed (HTB), a maneuvering glide vehicle designed to provide a common platform for hypersonic experiments....
Story by Stephen Roughton | U.S. Air Force Academy | 09.12.2023
U.S. Air Force Academy cadets are at the forefront of hypersonic flight research through Department of Aeronautics wind-tunnel testing. Cadets perform hypersonic testing primarily in two high-speed wind tunnels. The Hypersonic Mach 6 Ludwieg Tube is a 0.5 meter diameter, 35-meter tunnel that can test up to six times the speed of sound, showing how hypersonic shapes warm from the high-speed......
Story by Deidre R Moon | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 06.02.2022
In late March, the 846th Test Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., successfully stopped a reusable sled traveling at 6,400 feet per second on a monorail, making it a historic event for the team’s Hypersonic Sled Recovery, or HSR, effort....
Story by Jill Pickett | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 10.22.2021
The renovation of J-5 at Arnold Air Force Base from a large rocket motor test facility to a large-scale, clean air, variable Mach, hypersonic test facility, known as Project Phoenix, recently reached another milestone with the installation of a large, high-pressure air, or HPA, bottle farm....
Story by Deidre R Moon | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 09.23.2021
Since July 2021, the 846th Test Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., successfully stopped two sleds traveling over 5,000-feet per second on a monorail as part of the Hypersonic Sled Recovery, or HSR, effort. According to Daniel Lopez, project manager for the test that was completed in July, the Arnold Engineering Development Complex Holloman High Speed Test Track, or HHSTT, is a unique......
Story by Bradley Hicks | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 10.19.2020
In preparation for an increased demand of its services over the next decade, including work slated to begin next year, the 846th Test Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, is working to get its hypersonic sled testing program up to speed....
Story by Jill Pickett | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 09.30.2020
The Flight Systems Branch, or TSTW, within the Arnold Engineering Development Complex Test Operations Division, provides aerodynamic ground-test capabilities vital to the advancement of U.S. military weapons systems. Bringing together the efforts of personnel across multiple branches, TSTW operates six wind tunnels at subsonic, supersonic and hypersonic speeds to deliver decision-quality......
Courtesy Story | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 09.18.2020
The Flight Systems Branch, or TSTW, within the Arnold Engineering Development Complex Test Operations Division, provides aerodynamic ground-test capabilities vital to the advancement of U.S. military weapons systems....
