Comment on Military Aircraft Hit Mach 20 Before Ocean Crash, DARPA SaysComments−quarterto13y Darpa Maintains Control of Unmaned Aircraft at Mach 20 ...for three whole minutes!−melling13ySounds like a lot to me. For the first DARPA Grand Challenge, for example, no car finished the race. The farthest went 7 miles.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2004)The next year 5 vehicles completed.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2005)Also, consider all of the rocket failures in the 1960's and we still made it to the moon by the end of the decade.−elliottkember13yDon't forget, it traveled 650 miles in the process.−sukuriant13yat Mach 20, in our atmosphere with all the things it can collide into, and the latency that it experiences between itself and the ground...that's an incredible feat.−StavrosK13yor 1200 km.
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Sounds like a lot to me. For the first DARPA Grand Challenge, for example, no car finished the race. The farthest went 7 miles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2004)
The next year 5 vehicles completed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2005)
Also, consider all of the rocket failures in the 1960's and we still made it to the moon by the end of the decade.
Don't forget, it traveled 650 miles in the process.
at Mach 20, in our atmosphere with all the things it can collide into, and the latency that it experiences between itself and the ground...
that's an incredible feat.
or 1200 km.