{"id":175112,"date":"2023-10-28T03:23:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T08:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/china-allegedly-cracks-hypersonic-thermal-barrier-bringing-heat-on-us"},"modified":"2023-10-28T03:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T08:23:39","slug":"china-allegedly-cracks-hypersonic-thermal-barrier-bringing-heat-on-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/china-allegedly-cracks-hypersonic-thermal-barrier-bringing-heat-on-us","title":{"rendered":"China allegedly cracks hypersonic thermal barrier, bringing heat on US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-allegedly-cracks-hypersonic-thermal-barrier-bringing-heat-on-us2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The newly developed material resisted temperatures up to 7,343 degrees Fahrenheit without melting or losing shape during tests when applied to encase the surface of a waverider aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s scientists have claimed a major breakthrough: a successful test of a new surface material for hypersonic jets, which was considered impossible to make earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The development means that the Asian powerhouse has surpassed far ahead of the United States in the hypersonic race, according to a report by the South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly developed material resisted temperatures up to 7,343 degrees Fahrenheit without melting or losing shape during tests when applied to encase the surface of a waverider aircraft. China\u2019s scientists have claimed a major breakthrough: a successful test of a new surface material for hypersonic jets, which was considered impossible to make earlier. The development [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175112","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=175112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}