{"id":132064,"date":"2021-12-09T13:43:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/chinas-new-hypersonic-aircraft-is-based-on-a-rejected-nasa-design"},"modified":"2021-12-09T13:43:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:43:57","slug":"chinas-new-hypersonic-aircraft-is-based-on-a-rejected-nasa-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/chinas-new-hypersonic-aircraft-is-based-on-a-rejected-nasa-design","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s New Hypersonic Aircraft Is Based on a Rejected NASA Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BkTA1U8Kolc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And it can go faster than five times the speed of sound.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers in China has built and tested a prototype hypersonic flight engine based on a design that was scrapped by NASA over 20 years ago, according to a report from the South China Morning Post (SCMP).<\/p>\n<p>The prototype itself might not lead to a production version of hypersonic aircraft. Still, in a paper in the Journal of Propulsion Technology, the team behind the machine said \u201cunderstanding its work mechanism can provide important guidance to hypersonic plane and engine development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s scrapped X-47C program is revived The original design was proposed by Ming Han Tang, a former chief engineer of NASA\u2019s hypersonic program in the late 1990s. Tang\u2019s Two-Stage Vehicle (TSV) X-plane design was at the center of the Boeing Manta X-47C program. However, before the program could verify the viability of the design, it was terminated by the U.S. government due to its high costs as well as a series of technical issues.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it can go faster than five times the speed of sound. A team of researchers in China has built and tested a prototype hypersonic flight engine based on a design that was scrapped by NASA over 20 years ago, according to a report from the South China Morning Post (SCMP). The prototype itself might [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132064","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}