{"id":203833,"date":"2025-01-15T19:24:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/nasas-x-43a-the-mach-9-6-hypersonic-marvel"},"modified":"2025-01-15T19:24:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:24:57","slug":"nasas-x-43a-the-mach-9-6-hypersonic-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/nasas-x-43a-the-mach-9-6-hypersonic-marvel","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s X-43A: The Mach 9.6 Hypersonic Marvel"},"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\/gzadlK1-3Is?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Key Points and Summary: NASA\u2019s X-43A hypersonic research aircraft made history in 2004 by reaching Mach 9.64, or 6,363 mph, at an altitude of 110,000 feet.-Powered by a cutting-edge scramjet engine, the X-43A demonstrated the efficiency of air-breathing propulsion for hypersonic flight.-Developed as part of NASA\u2019s \u201cbetter, faster, cheaper\u201d program, the X-43A was [\u2026].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points and Summary: NASA\u2019s X-43A hypersonic research aircraft made history in 2004 by reaching Mach 9.64, or 6,363 mph, at an altitude of 110,000 feet.-Powered by a cutting-edge scramjet engine, the X-43A demonstrated the efficiency of air-breathing propulsion for hypersonic flight.-Developed as part of NASA\u2019s \u201cbetter, faster, cheaper\u201d program, the X-43A was [\u2026].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203833","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}