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The US-Australia Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HiFIRE) program had at least one successful hypersonic flight at Woomera testing range in South Australia last week. A round of experiments concluded on 12 July, confirmed Australian defense minister Marise Payne. UQ …

The continuing successful tests of Hypersonic missiles and anti-missiles by Russia, China and the United States will see a few dozen mostly short range hypersonic missiles and anti-missiles deployed by 2020. These will mainly be mach 5 to mach 10 …

DARPA will soon select a company to build its robotic XS-1 space plane. After downselect, a critical design review shuold take place in 2018, and a series of flights could be made as early as 2020. The XS-1 space plane …

The Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Siberian Branch Vasily Fomin sayd Russian scientists have surpassed their colleagues from the United States on hypersonic speed advances. The Russian Defense Ministry said Russia is targeting initial hypersonic missile and other …

The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 339 is up at Hiroshima Syndrome’s Fukushima Commentary Neutron Bytes – Toshiba’s Financial Meltdown Puts Its Nuclear Projects at Risk Worldwide Toshiba overpaid for its acquisition of Westinghouse in 2007, then wrote down half of …

More than any other president, Trump appears to want to take a direct role in federal contracting, a technical, complex part of the government that is run by tens of thousands of career civil servants. It is normally a stodgy, …

There are several emerging options which will provide options for accelerated supercomputing and supercomputer problem scale applications. There will be FPGAs that are 1000 to 10000 times faster than regular processors, optical processing which will become faster and cheaper for …