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DoD Conducting A Round Of Hypersonic Testing This Week

DoD Conducting A Round Of Hypersonic Testing This Week
The U.S. Navy, in collaboration with the U.S. Army, conducts a demonstration of advanced hypersonic technologies and prototype systems via sounding rockets in a realistic operating environment executed by Sandia National Laboratories from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, VA. on Oct. 20, 2021. (Photo: U.S. Navy courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories)

The Defense Department is conducting a second flight campaign this week with hypersonic experiments to help develop hypersonic weapons and defense, the Navy said on Oct. 26. The campaign is called the second High Operational Tempo for Hypersonics flight campaign and is being conducted by Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. SNL is conducting the test for both the Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) and the Army Hypersonic Project Office (AHPO) to…

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