{"id":77997,"date":"2018-04-23T04:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T11:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/china-plans-hypersonic-engine-factorychinas-hypersonic-engine-means-new-frontiers-for-travel-space-exploration"},"modified":"2018-04-23T04:02:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T11:02:27","slug":"china-plans-hypersonic-engine-factorychinas-hypersonic-engine-means-new-frontiers-for-travel-space-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/china-plans-hypersonic-engine-factorychinas-hypersonic-engine-means-new-frontiers-for-travel-space-exploration","title":{"rendered":"China plans hypersonic engine factoryChina\u2019s hypersonic engine means new frontiers for travel, space exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-plans-hypersonic-engine-factorychinas-hypersonic-engine-means-new-frontiers-for-travel-space-exploration.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China is drawing up plans for an aerospace engine plant that would pave the way for the mass production of \u201chypersonic\u201d planes or spacecraft capable of travelling at more than five times the speed of sound, boosting the country\u2019s competitiveness in defence, space, business and other sectors, according to scientists familiar with the project.<\/p>\n<p>The plant that would be built in Hefei, in China\u2019s eastern Anhui province, could give the country an edge over the United States and Russia in the race to achieve large-scale applications of hypersonic technology, the scientists said.<\/p>\n<p>Hefei deputy mayor Wang Wensong led a delegation to the Institute of Mechanics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing last month to discuss the project\u2019s roll-out, according to a statement on the institute\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/2142011\/start-your-engines-china-getting-ready-mass-produce-hypersonic\">http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/2142011\/start...hypersonic<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is drawing up plans for an aerospace engine plant that would pave the way for the mass production of \u201chypersonic\u201d planes or spacecraft capable of travelling at more than five times the speed of sound, boosting the country\u2019s competitiveness in defence, space, business and other sectors, according to scientists familiar with the project. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77997","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}