KT Engineering | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 10/07/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Falcon_Project


00:01:52 1 Design and development
00:02:02 1.1 Past projects
00:04:04 1.1.1 HyperSoar
00:05:15 1.2 FALCON
00:05:43 1.2.1 Small Launch Vehicle
00:06:52 1.2.2 Hypersonic Weapon System
00:07:42 1.2.3 Follow-on hypersonic program
00:09:04 1.3 Blackswift
00:11:06 2 Flight testing
00:13:22 3 Refocus
00:14:19 4 See also



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The DARPA Falcon Project (Force Application and Launch from CONtinental United States) is a two-part joint project between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the United States Air Force (USAF) and is part of Prompt Global Strike. One part of the program aims to develop a reusable, rapid-strike Hypersonic Weapon System (HWS), now retitled the Hypersonic Cruise Vehicle (HCV), and the other is for the development of a launch system capable of accelerating an HCV to cruise speeds, as well as launching small satellites into Earth orbit.  This two-part program was announced in 2003 and continued into 2006.Blackswift was a project announced under the Falcon banner using a fighter-sized unmanned aircraft which would take off from a runway and accelerate to Mach 6 (7,350 km/h; 4,567 mph) before completing its mission and landing again. The memo of understanding between DARPA and the USAF on Blackswift—also known as the HTV-3X—was signed in September 2007.  The Blackswift HTV-3X did not receive needed funding and was canceled in October 2008.Current research under FALCON program is centered on X-41 Common Aero Vehicle (CAV), a common aerial platform for hypersonic ICBMs and cruise missiles, as well as civilian RLVs and ELVs. The prototype Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) first flew on 22 April 2010; the second test flew 11 August 2011.  Both flights ended prematurely.