{"id":30144,"date":"2018-10-26T14:24:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T08:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30144"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:24:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T08:54:53","slug":"nasa-hires-lockheed-martin-to-build-supersonic-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasa-hires-lockheed-martin-to-build-supersonic-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA hires Lockheed Martin to build supersonic plane\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-life\/nasa-hires-lockheed-martin-to-build-supersonic-plane\/article23438458.ece\"><strong>NASA hires Lockheed Martin to build supersonic plane<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NASA has inked a deal with Lockheed Martin to develop a supersonic \u201cX-plane\u201d that could break the sound barrier without a sonic boom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Objective<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The goal is to enable quieter supersonic flight and create new commercial cargo and passenger markets in faster-than-sound air travel<\/p>\n<p><strong>Test Flight by 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The $247.5 million contract allows for the design, building and testing of a plane that would make its first test flight in 2021<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sound level upto 75db only<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The experimental plane \u201cwill cruise at 55,000 feet at a speed of about 1,513 kmph and create a sound about as loud as a car door closing, 75 Perceived Level decibel (PLdB), instead of a sonic boom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flight in mid-2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As early as mid-2022, NASA plans to fly the X-plane over certain, as yet to be determined, U.S. cities to collect data and gather community responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA hires Lockheed Martin to build supersonic plane\u00a0 What has happened? NASA has inked a deal with Lockheed Martin to develop a supersonic \u201cX-plane\u201d that could break the sound barrier without a sonic boom. Objective The goal is to enable quieter supersonic flight and create new commercial cargo and passenger markets in faster-than-sound air travel&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasa-hires-lockheed-martin-to-build-supersonic-plane\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA hires Lockheed Martin to build supersonic plane\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704868648},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}