{"id":117999,"date":"2021-01-03T13:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T21:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/the-scramjet-is-a-super-fast-experimental-engine-with-no-moving-parts"},"modified":"2021-01-03T13:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T21:22:35","slug":"the-scramjet-is-a-super-fast-experimental-engine-with-no-moving-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/the-scramjet-is-a-super-fast-experimental-engine-with-no-moving-parts","title":{"rendered":"The scramjet is a super-fast, experimental engine with no moving parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-scramjet-is-a-super-fast-experimental-engine-with-no-moving-parts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To test its experimental X-43A \u2014 an unmanned, single-use, scramjet-powered, hypersonic aircraft of which three were built \u2014 NASA piggybacked it on two other aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>First was the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, which carried under its wing the other two vehicles to an altitude at which they could be \u2018drop-launched\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the booster rocket, a modified version of a Pegasus rocket, which would accelerate the X-43A after the drop launch to a speed at which its scramjet engine could operate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To test its experimental X-43A \u2014 an unmanned, single-use, scramjet-powered, hypersonic aircraft of which three were built \u2014 NASA piggybacked it on two other aircraft. First was the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, which carried under its wing the other two vehicles to an altitude at which they could be \u2018drop-launched\u2019. Then there was the booster rocket, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}