Daily News | Philly tech firms live-track this year’s ‘fastest-ever’ Santa with NORAD data
With the world population topping eight billion for the first time, “Santa is flying faster than ever; we estimate he’s traveling over Mach 7 this year” — seven times the speed of sound, more than a mile per second — “to hit all those datapoints around the world in one night,” says Adam Gorski, aerospace engineer for Exton-based Ansys Government Initiatives.of Ansys Inc.
“Anything that fast is hypersonic — you see it, long before you hear it. You need special technology to go that fast,” the kind that propels satellites into orbit but doesn’t yet power commercial aircraft, he added., builds the user-friendly dashboard software that makes Santa easier to track, along with systems used by gamers and other participants in the emerging virtual-reality networks known as the metaverse.
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