U.S. space agency NASA and U.S. Air Force are looking for university and industry partners as they work to establish hypersonic science centers and advance hypersonic research.
NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate and the Air Force Research Laboratory released a broad agency announcement on Monday describing their intent to establish three national hypersonic science centers.
Hypersonic speed is defined as Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, and faster.
NASA and the Air Force Office plan to set aside as much as 30 million U.S. dollars to fund the centers over five years. The maximum grant will be approximately 2 million dollars a year.
The jointly funded program will support university-level basic science or engineering research that provides improved understanding of hypersonic flight.
"We have identified three critical research areas: air-breathing propulsion, materials and structures, and boundary layer control," said James Pittman, principal investigator for NASA's Fundamental Aeronautics Program's Hypersonics Project. "These three areas are the biggest hurdles to successful hypersonic flight and low-cost space access using an air-breathing engine."
Source:Xinhua
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