US conducts hypersonic systems launch vehicle test flight

The American Electron rocket on June 18 made a test suborbital flight under the Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program in the interests of the Pentagon, the Rocket Lab carrier development company has said.

The launch of the Electron rocket with the DYNAMO-A mission was carried out from the launch site from the NASA Wallops cosmodrome, located on the island of the same name off the Atlantic coast of the US state of Virginia, Interfax reports.

The rocket carried a payload weighing up to 700 kg.