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March 28, 2004

NASA Tests X-43A

Orbital's Hyper-X Launch Vehicle was successfully tested Saturday, in a flight that originated from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center located at Edwards Air Force Base (CA). The Hyper-X launch vehicle uses a modified first stage rocket motor, originally designed and flight-proven aboard Orbital's Pegasus space launch vehicle, to accelerate NASA's X-43A air-breathing scramjet to seven times the speed of sound.

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