hypersonics

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1 day. 3 rockets. 23 experiments.

October 22, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — One year to design, build and test three rockets. Six weeks to unpack, assemble and test them at the flight range. One day to launch them. Sandia National Laboratories launched three sounding rockets in succession for the Department of Defense on Wednesday. The triple launch was conducted...

Categories: Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Conventional Prompt Strike, Department of Defense, hypersonics, Long-Range Hypersonic Weapons, sounding rockets

Sandia supports hypersonic flight test

March 24, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories employees and contractors saw their work culminate in a hypersonic flight test conducted by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army on March 19 at the Kauai Test Facility in Hawaii.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] A common…

Categories: Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: flight test, hypersonics, Kauai Test Facility

Autonomy New Mexico interns build drones to test hypersonic tech

September 27, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is developing autonomy and artificial intelligence for flight systems soaring at more than 3,800 mph. The technologies to get there will initially be tested on drones that shuffle around at about 5 mph."We want to ensure suc…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: autonomy, AutonomyNM, drone, hypersonics, internship, unmanned vehicle

Future hypersonics could be artificially intelligent

April 18, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A test launch for a hypersonic weapon — a long-range missile that flies a mile per second and faster — takes weeks of planning. So, while the U.S. and other states are racing to deploy hypersonic technologies, it remains uncertain how useful the sys…

Categories: Computing, Conferences / Symposia, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: aerospace, autonomy, AutonomyNM, aviation, collaboration, hypersonics