Xiamen University Aerospace Academy with Beijing Lingkong Tianxing Technology Co., Ltd. successfully launched and recovered the reusable winged suborbital JiaGeng-1 technology tester rocket. (max alt 26.2Km)
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China’s Xiamen University Aerospace Academy and Beijing Lingkong Tianxing Technology Co. have successfully test launched “Jia Geng No. 1” hypersonic rocket.
The “Jia Geng No. 1” rocket employs a gas turbine that allows it to reach the speend of more than Mach 3. This turbine in fact has characteristics of a hypersonic ramjet engine.
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Xiamen University has now become the first university in the world to have built and flown a hypersonic aircraft and to have made its design public.
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