{"id":554011,"date":"2023-02-08T10:38:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T05:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=554011"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T06:53:00","slug":"nasas-x-57-maxwell-electric-plane-gets-closer-to-first-flight-with-successful-thermal-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nasas-x-57-maxwell-electric-plane-gets-closer-to-first-flight-with-successful-thermal-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s X-57 Maxwell electric plane gets closer to first flight with successful thermal tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA announced that its X-57 Maxwell all-electric aircraft completed thermal testing of its cruise motor controllers, reaching another milestone on the journey towards its first flight. The thermal testing validated the design, operability and quality of the controllers, which are critical components that power the X-57\u2019s experimental electric motors. <\/p>\n<p>What is NASA\u2019s X-57 Maxwell electric aircraft?<\/p>\n<p>The X-57 Maxwell is the agency\u2019s first all-electric experimental aircraft. The main goal of the project is to share X-57\u2019s electric propulsion-based design with regulators in a bid to advance certification approaches for emerging electric aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA announced that its X-57 Maxwell all-electric aircraft completed thermal testing of its cruise motor controllers, reaching another milestone on the journey towards its first flight. The thermal testing validated the design, operability and quality of the controllers, which are critical components that power the X-57\u2019s experimental electric motors. What is NASA\u2019s X-57 Maxwell electric aircraft? The X-57 Maxwell is the agency\u2019s first all-electric experimental aircraft. The main goal of the project is to share X-57\u2019s electric propulsion-based design with regulators in a bid to advance certification approaches for emerging electric aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}