NASA’s Electric-Propulsion Wing Test Helps Shape Next X-Plane

Credit: NASA
Its next X-plane may still be on the drawing board, but NASA is already learning the challenges it will face building and testing the aircraft, which will demonstrate distributed electric propulsion. Now called Sceptor, for Scalable Convergent Electric Propulsion Technology and Operations Research...

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