Hypersonic vehicle

United States Military (U.S.) lost contact with an experimental hypersonic vehicle in the Pacific Ocean. By Turner Brinton of Space News, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to lose contact with the vehicle Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV) -2 nine minutes after launch.
HTV-2 is the first of a series of experimental aircraft flights. The plan, the technology could be deployed for conventional missiles distance future.

"Vehicle was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, with a rocket minotaur 4," Brinton said, as quoted from page TG Daily, Tuesday, April 27, 2010.

Built by Lockheed Martin Corp.., HTV-2 plane gliding over the Pacific Ocean with a speed of 20 thousand kilometers per hour for 30 minutes. "However, nine minutes after the slide, DARPA lost contact with the plane, and the cause of failure is not yet known," he said.

However, from NPR's Frank James notes that in the early days of trial the defense tech, high-tech military projects are marked with a number of failures.

"Outside the U.S. space program in the late 1950s there were also failures, so not surprisingly, the military conducted tests last week to test Falcon and test the concept of a hypersonic airplane could be traveling at speeds up to 20 times faster than the speed of sound, also experienced failure , "said James.

"The idea of this technology is to create an aircraft that could reach locations on Earth in a matter of minutes," said James.