A promising technique for tracking boost-glide hypersonic vehicles involves detecting radio waves emitted by plasma in the wake. Passive detection would be a valuable capability, since existing ...

Challenging the Strategic Necessity of High-Speed Arms The United States has been exploring research and development of ...

Imagine a hypersonic vehicle hurtling through the sky at mind ... TWZ reports that the concept involves forming a plasma sheath around the vehicle, which significantly lowers viscous skin friction.

Another important aspect of EM wave interaction with plasma is observed in hypersonic ... atmospheric reentry vehicles. These investigations have revealed how the plasma sheath behaves at ...

At high enough flight velocities, the intense heating of the gas generates a plasma layer around the vehicle. The presence of free electrons in the flow field has been known to hinder the transmission ...