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Pegasus Rocket Booster Being Prepared for X-43A/Hyper-X Flight Test
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A close-up view of the front end of a Pegasus rocket booster being prepared by technicians at the Dryden Flight Research Center for flight tests with the X-43A "Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle," or "Hyper-X." The X-43A, which will be attached to the Pegasus booster and drop launched from NASA's B-52 mothership, was developed to research dual-mode ramjet/scramjet propulsion system at speeds from Mach 7 up to Mach 10 (7 to 10 times the speed of sound, which varies with temperature and altitude).
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Credit linePegasus Rocket Booster Being Prepared for X-43A/Hyper-X Flight Test. NASA/AFRC, 1999-08-25. Public domain. ID: EC99-45146-3.
