Hypersonic aircraft and aerospace systems

The air cosmic system is a new type of reactive aircraft with a supporting surface, designed for flight in the atmosphere and in outer space, combining the properties of the aircraft and the space aircraft.
This is a fundamentally new direction born at the junction of aviation, rocket and space technology. According to developers, the implementation of such a difficult large -scale program for creating such a system should not only create a fundamentally new class of aircraft that can effectively solve many of the problems of a military and civilian nature, but will also make it possible to master promising technologies that will largely determine the level of advanced sectors of leading countries In the XXI century.
In the presented work, "hypersonic aircraft and aerospace systems" are considered general issues related to the creation of such systems. A number of R&D are given, which in this area are performed in a number of countries. Most attention is paid to the results of research conducted in the United States. The results of some studies conducted in Russia are given in the open print. It is noted that large work in the field of hypersonic devices is carried out in China and in England. The presentation of materials was based on information obtained from foreign and domestic open sources