US military launches 3 suborbital rockets in test of hypersonic technologies
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The U.S. military launched three suborbital rockets this week from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
In a U.S. Navy news release, the maritime service branch said that the Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) and the Army Hypersonic Program Office (AHPO) had "successfully conducted" a High Operational Tempo for Hypersonics flight campaign on Wednesday evening.
The flight campaign, it said, was executed by Sandia National Laboratories – a contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) – and would be used to inform the development of the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) and the Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) offensive hypersonic strike capability.
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