{"id":94313,"date":"2019-07-31T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/nasa-agrees-to-work-with-spacex-on-orbital-refueling-technology"},"modified":"2019-07-31T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:22:26","slug":"nasa-agrees-to-work-with-spacex-on-orbital-refueling-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/nasa-agrees-to-work-with-spacex-on-orbital-refueling-technology","title":{"rendered":"NASA agrees to work with SpaceX on orbital refueling technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-agrees-to-work-with-spacex-on-orbital-refueling-technology2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday afternoon, NASA announced 19 new partnerships with 10 US companies to help bring more cutting-edge technologies closer to production use in spaceflight. There were a lot of useful engineering ideas here, such as precision landing systems and robotic plant farms, but perhaps the most intriguing one involved the rocket company SpaceX and two of NASA\u2019s field centers\u2014the Glenn Research Center in Ohio and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpaceX will work with Glenn and Marshall to advance technology needed to transfer propellant in orbit, an important step in the development of the company\u2019s Starship space vehicle,\u201d the NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-announces-us-industry-partnerships-to-advance-moon-mars-technology\">news release<\/a> states. This is a significant announcement for reasons both technical and political.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday afternoon, NASA announced 19 new partnerships with 10 US companies to help bring more cutting-edge technologies closer to production use in spaceflight. There were a lot of useful engineering ideas here, such as precision landing systems and robotic plant farms, but perhaps the most intriguing one involved the rocket company SpaceX and two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1506,6,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94313","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}