{"id":90676,"date":"2019-05-13T15:03:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T22:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/nasa-hands-massive-supersonic-contract-to-lockheed-martin-with-one-catch-no-sonic-boom"},"modified":"2019-05-13T15:03:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T22:03:47","slug":"nasa-hands-massive-supersonic-contract-to-lockheed-martin-with-one-catch-no-sonic-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/nasa-hands-massive-supersonic-contract-to-lockheed-martin-with-one-catch-no-sonic-boom","title":{"rendered":"NASA hands massive supersonic contract to Lockheed Martin, with one catch: No sonic boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-hands-massive-supersonic-contract-to-lockheed-martin-with-one-catch-no-sonic-boom2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2018<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=LMT\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"\" title=\"\" role=\"\" tabindex=\"\" data-type=\"\" aria-label=\"\">Lockheed Martin<\/a> has won a nearly quarter-billion dollar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/nasa\/\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"\" title=\"\" role=\"\" tabindex=\"\" data-type=\"\" aria-label=\"\">NASA<\/a> 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. This is \u201cNASA\u2019s first X-plane in a generation,\u201d a Lockheed Martin spokesperson told CNBC on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to applying the extensive work completed under QueSST to the design, build and flight test of the X-plane, providing NASA with a demonstrator to make supersonic commercial travel possible for passengers around the globe,\u201d program manager Peter Iosifidis said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/04\/03\/nasa-low-boom-supersonic-plane-lockheed-martin-wins-247-point-5-million.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2018 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 Lockheed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90676","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}