The vehicle was dropped from a carrier aircraft high above California's Mojave Desert and ignited its rocket engine to go supersonic for a few seconds.
Too big to rely on air bags to cushion its fall as with previous Mars landers, Curiosity landed through an automated system of high-speed maneuvers, a supersonic parachute, eight retro-rockets and a set of "sky-crane" tethers that lowered the vehicle gently the last few feet to the ground.
In 1956, the Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee met in England to discuss building a supersonic airliner by British aircraft and engine manufacturers and the government.
To transport the one-ton rover and position it near the mound, engineers devised a complicated system that includes a 52-foot (16-metre) diameter supersonic parachute, a rocket-powered aerial platform and a so-called "sky crane" designed to lower the rover on a tether to the ground.
The upshot is that pairs of virtual phonons are appearing and disappearing all the time, and if one gets trapped inside a supersonic boundary, the other should be released into the wider world to make a noise.
By cutting out the racket, Michael Paulson, CEO of Supersonic Aerospace International, and a number of other companies, believe they will open up overland routes to supersonic air travel as well as providing passengers and those on the ground with a more pleasant experience.
It performs a feat equal to a supersonic jet's circling the globe six inches off the ground.
This gives it a supersonic speed, in excess of 900 mph (1, 450 kph).
The landing process was dubbed "seven minutes of terror" and involved the world's largest supersonic parachute and a sky crane.
France's aerospace heavyweight Dassault Aviation pointed to the future last year when it unveiled plans for the Falcon SST, a supersonic business jet.
With air passenger numbers set to triple in the next 15 years, do small supersonic jets have a valuable place in the future of aviation?
We should remember that Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon wanted the U.S. to build a supersonic transport (SST) plane because the British and French were doing so.
X-43A, which is pilotless, four metres long, and has a nose made of solid tungsten, will be the first working aircraft to be powered by a scramjet a supersonic-combustion ramjet.
Astronomers think the cosmic bullets were ejected from deep within the nebula, likely propelled by strong winds expelling gas at supersonic speeds from a region of massive star formation outside, and below, this image's field-of-view.
Rounding out the specs are optical image stabilization (MEGA OIS), intelligent ISO, AF tracking, face detection, HDMI output, and intelligent scene selector with Venus Engine HD image processing and a Supersonic Wave Filter dust reduction system under the hood.
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The craft, partially owned by Virgin group overlord Sir Richard Branson and the Abu Dhabi-based investment group PJC, took off earlier today from its berth at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, where carrier-craft WhiteKnightTwo ferried it to a 47, 000 ft altitude after which its own rockets kicked in for a supersonic flight.
The craft, partially owned by Virgin group overload Sir Richard Branson and the Abu Dhabi-based investment group PJC, took off earlier today from its berth at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, where carrier-craft WhiteKnightTwo ferried it to a 47, 000 ft altitude after which its own rockets kicked in for a supersonic flight.
Supersonic Aerospace International have been developing a 12-seater luxury aircraft, the Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST) jet, which they hope will take to the skies in 2013 and reduce the noise of the sonic boom to no more than the noise level of a truck driving past your window.
The thing looks like it's about to go supersonic just sitting on a plate.
Rivellini is working on a new supersonic parachute, and others have shuffled into similar slots at J.
In 1973, at the Paris air show the Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashed, killing 15 people.
Air France, the only other company to operate the delta-winged supersonic jet, has a fleet of five jets.
But by taking the bang out of the sonic boom a new generation of supersonic cruisers aim to rekindle that sense of glamour while making it a quieter and more environmentally friendly 21st-century mode of travel.
The geometry of nozzle causes the air to reach supersonic speeds and, as a result, the gun achieved a muzzle velocity of 406 meters per second, which is about Mach 1.23!
The Cold War produced supersonic jets, interstate highways, a manned lunar landing and the Internet.
In June the defence minister flew on board a Russian-built supersonic Sukhoi-30 fighter jet.
But I suspect that one day we'll get a new SST (Supersonic Transport) in the air.
Eva sipped champagne and tucked into a meal during her supersonic round trip from Filton in Bristol where Concorde was built.
For this jump, the team also worked to create a new generation of space suit for better mobility and visual clarity, studied the effects on the human body of supersonic acceleration and deceleration, developed a new parachute system, and more.
Artillery was gradually replaced by tactical missiles in the defensive role, but the Air Force was too busy building a fleet of long-range bombers and supersonic fighters to be bothered with ground-based air defenses, while Army troops had a clear need for such defenses.
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