Spartan hypersonic launch system (University of Queensland, Austrialia)

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161117-australias-hypersonic-spaceplane-for-a-new-space-race

 

[ZacYates]

It's nice to see something like this in Australia. Good luck to them.

It looks cool!

More info and images including a launch profile here: http://heliaq.com/project-information/spartan-description

The August 2015 press release: https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/08/launching-australia-space

 

[Archibald]

The University of Queensland has done scramjet / hypersonic research for at least three decades (I have an article somewhere in my HD I'll link)

 

[edwest4]

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/...posites_For_Sustainable_Space_Travel_999.html