{"id":125942,"date":"2021-08-06T17:22:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T00:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/u-s-navy-is-developing-a-solar-powered-plane-that-can-fly-for-90-days-straight"},"modified":"2021-08-06T17:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T00:22:56","slug":"u-s-navy-is-developing-a-solar-powered-plane-that-can-fly-for-90-days-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/u-s-navy-is-developing-a-solar-powered-plane-that-can-fly-for-90-days-straight","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy is developing a solar-powered plane that can fly for 90 days straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-navy-is-developing-a-solar-powered-plane-that-can-fly-for-90-days-straight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The aircraft, evocatively called Skydweller and built by a U.S.-Spanish aerospace firm Skydweller Aero, could help the Navy keep a watchful eye on the surrounding seas while escorting ships months at a time or act as a communications relay platform. The company was awarded a $5 million contract by the U.S. Navy to develop the aircraft.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>To stay airborne for so long, the pilotless craft would have 2900sq ft of solar cells on its wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft, evocatively called Skydweller and built by a U.S.-Spanish aerospace firm Skydweller Aero, could help the Navy keep a watchful eye on the surrounding seas while escorting ships months at a time or act as a communications relay platform. The company was awarded a $5 million contract by the U.S. Navy to develop the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125942","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}