Their engines were producing lesser thrust/lift than the drag at those speeds. I guess the program is dead now. The last one was HyCAUSE, launched was 15th Jun 2007. Though it is a simple and ingenious method, it has certain drawbacks since most of the data collected would be during re-entry and through different levels of the atmosphere. They could test the flame holding etc, but never recorded any appreciable thrust.disha wrote: Woomera HyShot was at a very small scale. Also the scramjet engines appear to be smaller and "simpler". Interestingly, it has been 2 years and there has been no further news, I expected it to be scaled up within 2 years, particularly since it is funded by UK MOD.
And practically speaking, even if successful, this method wont give the same kind of metrics as a horizontal flight test like that of the X-43
). A surgical launch and recovery operation will attract the attention of the world once again toward's India's space programme and overall high-tech industry. To achieve a technological feat of this magnitude you will need to have a mature high tech industrial base and that of all will capture the investor's eye. It will add to India's clout on the world stage. 
into a geostationary transfer orbit, uses all the three kinds of propellants — solid, liquid and cryogenic. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) uses only solid and liquid propellants and is capable of carrying payloads less than 2 tonnes.
. Paki pigs can figure out what will be the accuracy when their national assets hidden in hills and crevices of their Garnail's musharraf are taken out by inhuman UAVs, be it La-whore, Sar-kutta, Quetta, Pasni, Swat or Malakhand. Jaguar(sic) vane be slit with surgical precision.
