What is scramjet?

conventional missiles create a pulling by combining liquid fuel with oxidation oxidate, usually liquid oxygen. Both fuel and oxidation to occupy a lot of space, resulting in a rocket that must be very large to achieve the turn of the necessary to release the satellite in orbit. For example, 8 grams of oxygen are necessary to ignite 1 grams of hydrogen, typical missile fuel. In order to maintain both fuel and oxidation to both containers, which further increases the overall weight of the rocket and requires even more fuel to raise the useful load in orbit. Conventional missiles need a complex network of pipes and holes to ensure that the fuel mixture and oxidation evenly and quickly during the start process. The large blade on the front of the vessel takes the deck to insulate oxygen from the air, compress it and represent it in the fuel stream when they then search for oxygen and produce a thrust. To make scramjet sufficient oxygen for a separate flight, must already move with supersonic speeds. For this reason, scramjet must be connected to a conventional missile at the beginning of its flight.

The first successful scramjet court occurred on August 16, 2002, when the Hyshot University of Queensland team launched its scramjet missile from a reflection pad in Woomer in Australia. Scramjet, mounted on the Terior Orion rocket, reached Mach 7.7 and flew for a total of 6 seconds, enough to prove that the principle of Scramjet works. NASA expressed great interest in Scramjet technology, launched the Hyper-X program, cooperation between the Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. And Dryden Flightvýzkovy Center in Edwards, California, to make Scramjet technology with practical reality.

One day scramjets could take passengers from Tokyo from New York in less than 2 hours, almost 10 times faster than a conventional aircraft. Because scramjet has no oxidation tanks, it canBeing much lighter, faster and finally cheaper than conventional rocket technology. Its only exhaust is water, released from a combination of hydrogen, fuel, with oxygen, oxidation oxide and does not have to discard massive empty tanks like conventional missiles. Scramjet can be the most suitable tool for taking over payload and passengers in orbit in the future era of commercialized space flight.