{"id":170589,"date":"2023-08-25T23:22:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T04:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/plasma-breakthrough-could-enable-better-hypersonic-weapons-spacecraft"},"modified":"2023-08-25T23:22:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T04:22:35","slug":"plasma-breakthrough-could-enable-better-hypersonic-weapons-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/plasma-breakthrough-could-enable-better-hypersonic-weapons-spacecraft","title":{"rendered":"Plasma breakthrough could enable better hypersonic weapons, spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plasma-breakthrough-could-enable-better-hypersonic-weapons-spacecraft.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A potential new way to protect sensitive electronics from the extreme heat generated by flying at high speed could give the United States an edge in the race to deploy hypersonic missiles and new spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>A July research <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsnano.3c02417\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> in the American Chemical Society\u2019s journal ACS Nano describes one potential solution that uses focused <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plasma_(physics)\" target=\"_blank\">plasma<\/a>, the photons and highly charged particles that make up the so-called fourth state of matter. If the method bears out in further research, it could usher in hypersonic weapons with much more advanced electronic guidance and could even enable on-the-ground weapons to evade heat sensors.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough grew out of efforts to use a laser to measure the temperature of electronics in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plasma-facing_material\" target=\"_blank\">plasma-facing environments<\/a>, work the Air Force is supporting through a grant at the University of Virginia, said professor Patrick Hopkins, one of the researchers on the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A potential new way to protect sensitive electronics from the extreme heat generated by flying at high speed could give the United States an edge in the race to deploy hypersonic missiles and new spacecraft. A July research paper in the American Chemical Society\u2019s journal ACS Nano describes one potential solution that uses focused plasma, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-military","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170589","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}