HyShot - Hypersonics News
- Cairns firm partners UQ in scramjet test venture
- A North Queensland engineering firm will play an important role in next year’s Australian experiments to test the world’s fastest air-breathing engines.
- 27-Oct-2004
- Woomera test ahead of scramjet flights
- University of Queensland scientists will fly a baby rocket at Woomera, South Australia in early October this year to test new systems ahead of next year’s full-scale scramjet engine experimental flights.
- 14-Sep-2004
- Smart women lead the way
- UQ scientists, a psychologist, dentist and environmental engineer have scooped Queensland’s Smart Women – Smart State awards.
- 17-Aug-2004
- Japanese scramjet flight to launch in Australia
- The University of Queensland and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will further develop scramjet technology in a new experiment to fly at Woomera, South Australia, in August, 2005.
- 28-Jul-2004
- UQ student named Young Queenslander of the Year
- A University of Queensland PhD student aiding the fight against skin cancer has been named the 2004 Young Queenslander of the Year.
- 09-Jun-2004
- Hypersonics Research Speeds Up
- The world’s fastest air-breathing engine will fly in Australia in 2005 in a collaborative two-nation experiment that is expected to provide a major boost to the fledgling scramjet technology.
- 17-May-2004
- HyShot team congratulate NASA on scramjet success
- Australian scramjet pioneers today congratulated the NASA team which at the weekend flew an airbreathing scramjet powered aircraft freely for the first time.
- 29-Mar-2004
- NASA scientist looks into space
- A leading NASA scientist and The University of Queensland’s “rocket man” Professor Allan Paull will speak about the future of high speed flight at a UQ Bright Minds Frontiers in Science event next week. (Wednesday, February 11).
- 06-Feb-2004
- Hyshot soars into next phase
- The University of Queensland’s internationally celebrated HyShot™ program has been given its own rocket boost through an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant of almost $2 million announced this week.
- 16-Oct-2003
- HyShot program secures place in flight history
- University of Queensland researchers today (August 16) claimed success for the world`s first flight test of supersonic combustion, the process used in an air-breathing supersonic ramjet engine, known as a scramjet.
- 16-Aug-2002
- HyShot rocket scientists at UQ Study Expo and Open Day on Sunday
- Members of The University of Queensland-led HyShot team will attend the free UQ Study Expo and Open Day on Sunday, August 4 to share their experiences with the public.
- 02-Aug-2002
- HyShot launch successful - positive signs for experiment
- University of Queensland researchers say the launch of the HyShot experiment at the Woomera Prohibited Range today was successful.
- 30-Jul-2002
- HyShot experiment takes-off
- The HyShot experiment - attempting the world`s first flight test of the supersonic combustion process - was launched at 1135 local time (1205 AEST) at the Woomera Prohibited Area, 500km north of Adelaide today.
- 30-Jul-2002
- Scramjet test on the launchpad, ready for take-off
- A University of Queensland team is gearing up for Tuesday`s historic attempt to flight test the supersonic combustion process used in a scramjet for the first time in the world.
- 27-Jul-2002
- Milestones in the history of scramjets
- Ramjets predated World War II, with beginnings in 1913, when Rene Lorin of France recognised the possibility of using ram pressure in a propulsive device.
- 27-Jul-2002
- HyShot experiment significance
- The HyShot experiment involves the world’s first flight tests using supersonic combustion. UQ researchers (Dr Allan Paull, Emeritus Professor Ray Stalker and Dr David Mee) already hold the record for being the first group reported in the open literature to “fly” a scramjet in a UQ ground test facility in 1993.
- 27-Jul-2002
- HyShot scramjet program on track
- Yesterday’s unsuccessful Japanese aeronautical experiment at Woomera is unlikely to cause delays to the international HyShot program to test a scramjet in flight for the first time in the world.
- 15-Jul-2002
- UQ welcomes report into Hyshot scramjet flight anomaly
- The University of Queensland has welcomed the findings of an independent investigation into a flight anomaly of last year’s HyShot scramjet experiment.
- 20-Jun-2002
- HyShot second flight lines up for takeoff
- The University of Queensland is working towards the second flight in the international HyShot program to proceed at Woomera, possibly in late July or early August.
- 22-May-2002
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