{"id":110784,"date":"2020-08-03T08:02:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/virgin-galactic-partners-with-rolls-royce-as-it-looks-to-build-an-aircraft-for-supersonic-air-travel"},"modified":"2020-08-03T08:02:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:02:52","slug":"virgin-galactic-partners-with-rolls-royce-as-it-looks-to-build-an-aircraft-for-supersonic-air-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/virgin-galactic-partners-with-rolls-royce-as-it-looks-to-build-an-aircraft-for-supersonic-air-travel","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic partners with Rolls-Royce as it looks to build an aircraft for supersonic air travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virgin-galactic-partners-with-rolls-royce-as-it-looks-to-build-an-aircraft-for-supersonic-air-travel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Space tourism venture <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=SPCE\">Virgin Galactic<\/a> announced it signed an agreement with Rolls-Royce to develop an aircraft for supersonic travel, giving a first look on Monday of the coming vehicle\u2019s design.<\/p>\n<p>Supersonic travel is a long-term bet for Virgin Galactic, which has been developing reusable spacecraft capable of sending people on short trips to the edge of space for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic said it completed a mission concept review alongside NASA of its supersonic vehicle design and now will work with the Federal Aviation Administration to create a framework for certifying the aircraft for flight. Previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=BA\">Boeing\u2019s<\/a> venture arm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/10\/08\/boeing-20-million-stake-in-virgin-galactic-with-vision-of-hypersonic.html\">invested $20 million in Virgin Galactic<\/a>, specifically toward helping the company build a supersonic aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space tourism venture Virgin Galactic announced it signed an agreement with Rolls-Royce to develop an aircraft for supersonic travel, giving a first look on Monday of the coming vehicle\u2019s design. Supersonic travel is a long-term bet for Virgin Galactic, which has been developing reusable spacecraft capable of sending people on short trips to the edge [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}