Flying supersonic

I remember reading about this a bit earlier on in the year. It now looks like they are getting that one step closer to putting it to use:

Japanese supersonic airliner is go

From the article:

Japan this morning successfully tested an 11.5m-long propotype of its Next Generation Supersonic Transport (SST) at Australia's Woomera range.
The SST was carried to around 59,000 feet strapped under a rocket after which it separated and flew for 15 minutes at Mach 1.9-2 before parachuting back to earth. A Japanese space agency (JAXA) spokeswoman told AFP: "It went well, it was successful," which must come as a great relief to the agency after the first model crashed and burned three years ago when the vehicle detached prematurely from the rocket.

If it eventually gets put to use, I hope it won’t suffer the same fate as the Concorde.