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Article: AEROJET DONATES $50,000 TO SUPPORT VIRGINIA TECH STUDENT TEAM'S SCRAMJET DESIGN PROJECT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- October 31, 2009
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BLACKSBURG, Va., Oct. 23 -- The Virginia Department of Education's Cooperative Extension Service issued the following news release:
Aerojet Corp. has donated $50,000 to support the Virginia Tech College of Engineering's Hy-V Scramjet launch student design team.
This is the fourth consecutive year that Sacramento-based Aerojet has supported the Hy-V scramjet launch project, based in the college's mechanical engineering and aerospace and ocean engineering departments. The company donated $50,000 in December 2008. The student team is building a scramjet propulsion engine that will be tested at Mach 5 and 90,000 feet for a 20-second flight. A scramjet is an air-breathing propulsion engine ...