Just how high above the clouds could the X-65 design "fly"?
Hmm:
An experimental DARPA plane that would steer using bursts of air is expected to have its first flight in late 2027, more than two years later than originally planned, after the program was paused and restructured.
The unmanned X-65, being built by Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program, is designed to test a concept called “active flow control” to steer an aircraft.
Could that concept be adapted for space flight in the Earth-Moon system? Is the X-37 providing experience in getting to that capability?
And it sure would help to escort Santa on his global mission through potentially hostile skies.
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NOTE: Illustration from the article.
