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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 95 - Salt Lake City - March 2005
Agenda Location	7 SUBCOMMITTEE A - AERONAUTIC AND SURFACE 7.4 X-43A Flights 2 and 3 Overview
Title	X-43A Flights 2 and 3 Overview
Presenter	Luat Nguyen
Affiliation	NASA
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Abstract	This presentation will provide an overview of the Hyper-X/X-43A program with particular focus on the second (mach 7) and third (Mach 10) flights. The rationale and objectives of the program will be reviewed and the overall approach to meeting these goals will be discussed. The presentation will then cover the lessons learned from the first flight failure and their application to the Return to Flight effort. These include hardware and software changes as well as improvements to how analyses and design/development activities were conducted and reviewed. The highly successful second flight will be summarized with emphasis on the major findings and their impact on meeting the goals of the program. The paper will then discuss the Mach 10 flight -- the additional challenges associated with it, how they were addressed, and the results that were achieved from the flight.