{"id":12463,"date":"2023-06-25T11:07:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T05:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12463"},"modified":"2025-04-01T19:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:52:47","slug":"what-is-x-57-maxwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-x-57-maxwell\/","title":{"rendered":"What is X-57 Maxwell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About X-57 Maxwell:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>all-electric experimental aircraft<\/strong> designed to demonstrate multiple leading-edge technologies.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0It is being <strong>designed and developed by NASA.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Goal<\/strong>: To <strong>demonstrate that an all-electric airplane can be more efficient, quieter and more environmentally friendly<\/strong> than airplanes powered by traditional gas piston engines.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>Design<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It was <strong>made by modifying an Italian Texnam P2006T light aircraft<\/strong> to be powered by an <strong>electric propulsion system<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It will <strong>demonstrate the use of a high-power distributed electric propulsion system<\/strong> for use on an aircraft, including a <strong>460 volt battery to power 14 motors and propellers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>cruise motor controllers<\/strong> are critical components of the X-57\u2019s powertrain, as they <strong>convert the energy stored in the aircraft\u2019s lithium-ion batteries<\/strong> <strong>to power the motors <\/strong>that spin the electric propellers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The wing, which is being reduced to 42% of the original size to significantly reduce drag<\/strong>, will <strong>feature wing-tip propellers<\/strong> to reduce the wing-tip vortex at cruise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1)\u00a0What are lithium-ion batteries?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A lithium-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery that is charged and discharged by lithium ions moving between the negative (anode) and positive (cathode) electrodes. Because lithium-ion batteries are suitable for storing high-capacity power, they are used in a wide range of applications, including consumer electronics such as smartphones and PCs, industrial robots, production equipment and automobiles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/odishatv.in\/news\/science\/nasa-builds-all-electric-aircraft-to-create-path-toward-electric-aviation-207852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>NASA builds all-electric aircraft to create path toward electric aviation<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X-57 Maxwell is an all-electric experimental aircraft designed to demonstrate multiple leading-edge technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}