Hyshot III Ready for Launch

The newly designed Scramjet is scheduled to launch over Australia Saturday.

The scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) known as the Hyshot III is a new type of engine. It has no moving parts and takes all of the oxygen it needs to burn hydrogen fuel from the air. In order for the scramjet to begin working it has to reach 5 times the speed of sounds. That is why it will be attached to the front of a regular rocket that will take it to an altitude if 330 km before it drops back to Earth in hopes that it will reach an expected top speed of Mach 7.6 over 9,000km per hour.

As you can guess if this flight is a success it will bring us closer to creating a commercial scramjet which would allow passenger airlines to fly between London and Sydney in just 2 hours.

The newly designed Scramjet is scheduled to launch over Australia Saturday.

The scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) known as the Hyshot III is a new type of engine. It has no moving parts and takes all of the oxygen it needs to burn hydrogen fuel from the air. In order for the scramjet to begin working it has to reach 5 times the speed of sounds. That is why it will be attached to the front of a regular rocket that will take it to an altitude if 330 km before it drops back to Earth in hopes that it will reach an expected top speed of Mach 7.6 over 9,000km per hour.

As you can guess if this flight is a success it will bring us closer to creating a commercial scramjet which would allow passenger airlines to fly between London and Sydney in just 2 hours.