{"id":106763,"date":"2020-05-08T06:22:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/payloads-revealed-for-next-flight-of-x-37b-military-spaceplane"},"modified":"2020-05-08T06:22:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T13:22:27","slug":"payloads-revealed-for-next-flight-of-x-37b-military-spaceplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/payloads-revealed-for-next-flight-of-x-37b-military-spaceplane","title":{"rendered":"Payloads revealed for next flight of X-37B military spaceplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/payloads-revealed-for-next-flight-of-x-37b-military-spaceplane2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next flight of the U.S. military\u2019s reusable X-37B spaceplane \u2014 scheduled for liftoff May 16 from Cape Canaveral \u2014 will carry more experiments into orbit than any of the winged ship\u2019s previous missions, including two payloads for NASA and a small deployable satellite built by Air Force Academy cadets.<\/p>\n<p>Military officials announced new details about the upcoming X-37B mission Wednesday, and confirmed its target launch date of May 16. The Boeing-built spaceplane was mounted on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket Tuesday inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41 launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>The unpiloted spacecraft launches inside a payload shroud on top of a conventional rocket, unfurls a power-generating solar array in orbit to generate electricity, and returns to Earth for a runway landing like NASA\u2019s retired space shuttle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next flight of the U.S. military\u2019s reusable X-37B spaceplane \u2014 scheduled for liftoff May 16 from Cape Canaveral \u2014 will carry more experiments into orbit than any of the winged ship\u2019s previous missions, including two payloads for NASA and a small deployable satellite built by Air Force Academy cadets. Military officials announced new details [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106763","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=106763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}