{"id":77474,"date":"2018-04-03T22:21:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T05:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/lockheed-wins-nearly-250-million-nasa-contract-to-build-supersonic-plane"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:02:52","slug":"lockheed-wins-nearly-250-million-nasa-contract-to-build-supersonic-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/lockheed-wins-nearly-250-million-nasa-contract-to-build-supersonic-plane","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed wins nearly $250 million NASA contract to build supersonic plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lockheed-wins-nearly-250-million-nasa-contract-to-build-supersonic-plane.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silence is Golden.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Lockheed Martin has won a nearly quarter-billion dollar NASA contract to develop a plane capable of supersonic speed without creating the deafening sonic boom that comes with breaking the sound barrier.<\/p>\n<p>The cost-plus NASA contract, valued at $247.5 million, will allow the defense contractor\u2019s secretive Skunk Works division to continue development of Lockheed Martin\u2019s Quiet Supersonic Technology (or QueSST) aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Under the low-boom flight demonstration contract, Lockheed Martin will design and build an experimental airplane which NASA will flight-test by the end of 2021.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/companies\/lockheed-wins-dollar250m-nasa-contract-to-build-supersonic-plane\/ar-AAvpQJF?ocid=sf\">https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/companies\/lockheed-wins-doll...JF?ocid=sf<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silence is Golden. Lockheed Martin has won a nearly quarter-billion dollar NASA contract to develop a plane capable of supersonic speed without creating the deafening sonic boom that comes with breaking the sound barrier. The cost-plus NASA contract, valued at $247.5 million, will allow the defense contractor\u2019s secretive Skunk Works division to continue development of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":471,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77474","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\/471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77506,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77474\/revisions\/77506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}