{"id":117488,"date":"2020-12-21T10:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/giant-rocket-launching-drone-will-take-satellites-to-space"},"modified":"2020-12-21T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T18:22:17","slug":"giant-rocket-launching-drone-will-take-satellites-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/giant-rocket-launching-drone-will-take-satellites-to-space","title":{"rendered":"Giant Rocket Launching Drone Will Take Satellites to Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giant-rocket-launching-drone-will-take-satellites-to-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go big or go home. This Alabama-based start-up just unveiled the biggest drone in the world \u2014 and it looks sublime. The massive drone, called the Ravn X, is designed to launch small satellites into orbit while airborne.<\/p>\n<p>Aevum \u2014 the space startup \u2014 has worked mainly in the background, until yesterday when they unveiled their gigantic autonomous drone.<\/p>\n<p>They built the high-altitude aircraft and launch vehicle to ferry satellites to orbit and improve space access \u2014 similar goals to space-tech leaders like Virgin Orbit, Rocket Lab, and SpaceX. But if you want to get ahead of the competition and can\u2019t be the first, why not be the biggest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go big or go home. This Alabama-based start-up just unveiled the biggest drone in the world \u2014 and it looks sublime. The massive drone, called the Ravn X, is designed to launch small satellites into orbit while airborne. Aevum \u2014 the space startup \u2014 has worked mainly in the background, until yesterday when they unveiled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117488","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}