Steve Baxter
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2 Aug
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Department of Defense bought like the $18 million rocket they had to strap it to, times by three.
So it was a massive sort of win.
Wow.
They launched their – so they got three because typically in rocketry, the first one blows up, the second one flies for 10 seconds, then blows up, and the third one works.
And they all tend to celebrate their success or their failure very much in the open.
This is why it blew up, and everyone's sort of high-fiving the fact they just blew a rocket up.
They launched this thing in February out of Wallops Island, and the thing took off.
And, you know, the commentary, you know, the aircraft separated, and the US government cut the feed and said, what launch?
That's good.
That's good, Rob.
I don't know.
I'm only guessing it's good.
So that's going to be an amazing Australian – so a hypersonic story in the world.
It was written by an Australian company out of Brisbane, Michael Smart, the founder of the technology there.
So –
But just explain what a hypersonic aircraft is like.
So a hypersonic flight profile is usually above Mach 5.
Right, going faster than 5,000 kilometers an hour, whatever, I don't know, whatever.
Yeah, it's 1,200 kilometers an hour speed of sound, isn't it?
Yeah, speed of sound, yeah.
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