{"id":178228,"date":"2023-12-13T11:39:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T17:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/wild-new-nasa-plasma-tech-reduces-drag-during-hypersonic-flight"},"modified":"2023-12-13T11:39:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T17:39:57","slug":"wild-new-nasa-plasma-tech-reduces-drag-during-hypersonic-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/wild-new-nasa-plasma-tech-reduces-drag-during-hypersonic-flight","title":{"rendered":"Wild new NASA plasma tech reduces drag during hypersonic flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wild-new-nasa-plasma-tech-reduces-drag-during-hypersonic-flight3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sam.gov\/opp\/a617ceaf1f7240a38f240879336819b5\/view\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/sam.gov\/opp\/a617ceaf1f7240a38f240879336819b5\/view\">notice<\/a> the agency posted on the government contracting portal SAM.gov on Thursday (Dec. 7), the technology was developed by researchers at NASA\u2019s Langley Research Center in Virginia and has been studied for use in a simulated entry into <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18922-neptune-atmosphere.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18922-neptune-atmosphere.html\">Neptune\u2019s atmosphere.<\/a> A separate 2021 study of the same technology studied it for use in the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/arc.aiaa.org\/doi\/abs\/10.2514\/6.2022-0934\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/arc.aiaa.org\/doi\/abs\/10.2514\/6.2022-0934\">atmosphere of Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/satellites-hypersonic-missile-foo-fighter-pentagon\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/satellites-hypersonic-missile-foo-fighter-pentagon\">Space Force wants \u2018Foo Fighter\u2019 satellites to track hypersonic missiles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The agency claims its MHD system is \u201csimpler than conventional methods for control of hypersonic craft (e.g., chemical propulsion, shifting flight center of gravity, or trim tabs) and enables new entry, descent, and landing mission architectures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a notice the agency posted on the government contracting portal SAM.gov on Thursday (Dec. 7), the technology was developed by researchers at NASA\u2019s Langley Research Center in Virginia and has been studied for use in a simulated entry into Neptune\u2019s atmosphere. A separate 2021 study of the same technology studied it for use [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1490,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-government","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178228","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}