{"id":186994,"date":"2024-04-08T20:23:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/exclusive-phase-four-secures-a-14-9m-darpa-contract-for-an-air-breathing-vleo-system"},"modified":"2024-04-08T20:23:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:23:54","slug":"exclusive-phase-four-secures-a-14-9m-darpa-contract-for-an-air-breathing-vleo-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/exclusive-phase-four-secures-a-14-9m-darpa-contract-for-an-air-breathing-vleo-system","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Phase Four Secures a $14.9M DARPA Contract for an Air-Breathing VLEO System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exclusive-phase-four-secures-a-14-9m-darpa-contract-for-an-air-breathing-vleo-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congestion in LEO is on its way up, and in response, the US military is looking to move down.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has tapped RF-powered in-space propulsion pioneer Phase Four to develop and build a thruster that utilizes the thin air in VLEO as propellant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congestion in LEO is on its way up, and in response, the US military is looking to move down. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has tapped RF-powered in-space propulsion pioneer Phase Four to develop and build a thruster that utilizes the thin air in VLEO as propellant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186994","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\/186994","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}