NationStates Jolt Archive


Scientists fire our scramjet X-43 [test]

DeMo_MaN
16-05-2004, 22:21
Chris(Locke Martin leading Scientist): Dan, call the president and tell him, the X-43 is going through its final system check, and preperations.
Dan (Locke Martin President): Ok Chris, (as he picks up the red phone)
Christie (Presidents secretary) Sir, Dan from Locke Martin is on line 1.
Keith (President): Thank you Christie, Dan how are preperations comming?
Dan We are going through our final preperations, launch in roughly 4.5 hours. Also you may want to notfiy other nations, because of what happened last time. . .
Keith Yeh, i think i should. It got rough last time. Thank you Dan.
Dan Its a pleasure sir.

Keith [code:1:d378feb19c]To all Nations, in approximately 4 hours, Demo_Man's NASA scientists will be launching our X-43. We want to warn you, incase this small aircraft shows up on your radar, and you possibly thinking it is some type of weapon. But i assure you, it is no such thing.
[u]What the test consists of[/u]The X-43A is attached to a modified Pegasus booster, which is itself carried to 20,000 feet by an airplane. The Pegasus separates from the plane and boosts the X-43A up to 100,000 feet and scramjet speeds. When the plane reaches somewhere between mach 7 and 8, the scramjet will fire. After the engine burns long enough to gather data, the prototype will be scuttled in to the ocean. We hope no one has a problem with this. Thank You [/code:1:d378feb19c]

OOC: If you need any more data, on the X-43, to assure you it is no weapon please tg me.