
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) conducted the second flight experiment of its Hypersonic Test Bed (HTB) on Jan.13, the agency said Tuesday. The HTB is a glide vehicle designed to provide a common platform for further experiments on hypersonic vehicles and targets. MDA said in this test, called HTB-2, a sounding rocket launched the glide vehicle into hypersonic flight before it separated. "HTB-2 demonstrates our ability to affordably replicate hypersonic capabilities to enable testing of future hypersonic defense capabilities," MDA…