Contact lost with hypersonic glider after launch

Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 13:00 in Mathematics & Economics

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An unmanned hypersonic glider developed for U.S. defense research into super-fast global strike capability was launched atop a rocket early Thursday but contact was lost after the experimental craft began flying on its own, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said....

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