Pegasus Hypersonic Experiment
The Pegasus Hypersonic Experiment was a NASA flight-research investigation built around a smooth, instrumented steel glove fitted to the first-stage wing of a Pegasus booster. Its pressure, temperature, hot-film, and acceleration sensors characterized the transition from laminar to turbulent airflow during ascent at hypersonic speed.
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- PHYSXPegasus wing-glove experimentHypersonic glove experiment
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- Pegasus Hypersonic Experiment
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- The Pegasus Hypersonic Experiment was a NASA flight-research investigation built around a smooth, instrumented steel glove fitted to the first-stage wing of a Pegasus booster. Its pressure, temperature, hot-film, and acceleration sensors characterized the transition from laminar to turbulent airflow during ascent at hypersonic speed.
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- 1998-10-22
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- The wing glove collected approximately ninety seconds of aerodynamic and thermal measurements as Pegasus accelerated toward Mach 8. Because the first stage was expendable, the experiment processed and transmitted its data in real time, producing usable boundary-layer-transition results for comparison with design and stability models.
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- 1998-10-22
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- July 29, 2026 at 08:55:06 UTC
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