{"id":120088,"date":"2021-03-01T18:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T02:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/spacex-wins-air-force-manufacturing-research-contract-for-hypersonic-vehicle-thermal-shields"},"modified":"2021-03-01T18:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T02:22:18","slug":"spacex-wins-air-force-manufacturing-research-contract-for-hypersonic-vehicle-thermal-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/spacex-wins-air-force-manufacturing-research-contract-for-hypersonic-vehicle-thermal-shields","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX wins Air Force manufacturing research contract for hypersonic vehicle thermal shields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-wins-air-force-manufacturing-research-contract-for-hypersonic-vehicle-thermal-shields2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded SpaceX an $8.5 million contract to investigate manufacturing techniques for heat shields that protect hypersonic vehicles in flight.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded SpaceX an $8.5 million contract to investigate advanced materials and manufacturing techniques for heat shields that protect hypersonic vehicles in flight.<\/p>\n<p>Heat protection is a critical technology to shield hypersonic vehicles from the intense heat experienced when flying at more than five times the speed of sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded SpaceX an $8.5 million contract to investigate manufacturing techniques for heat shields that protect hypersonic vehicles in flight. WASHINGTON \u2014 The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded SpaceX an $8.5 million contract to investigate advanced materials and manufacturing techniques for heat shields that protect hypersonic vehicles in flight. Heat protection [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120088","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=120088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}