Reusable hypersonic flight testing accelerates technology development
Regular, routine, and reusable hypersonic flight testing in the operational environment is a cost effective, critical component of leap-ahead technologies.
Congressional Research Service report could shape lawmaker questions on hypersonics at next hearing, from funding to command and control issues.
Despite increasing threats to and from space, the new priorities document stresses that "confrontation or conflict" is not inevitable.
China's recent test of a FOBS/HGV hybrid is "a very forward-edge technology capability," said Space Force's Lt. Gen. Chance (Salty) Saltzman.