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Nasa’s dream comes true: China plans to build a giant rail gun to launch hypersonic planes into space
the new technology could reduce launch costs to a fraction of the current price People could soon be launched into space using a type of hypersonic rail gun, as Chinese scientists and engineers ...
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China plans to build a giant rail gun to launch hypersonic planes longer than a Boeing 737 into space - as Beijing ramps up race to the moon
people could be sent into space. The rail gun will essentially be a giant electromagnetic launch track used to accelerate a hypersonic aircraft to Mach 1.6 - meaning it will be travelling at ...