{"id":127665,"date":"2021-09-14T15:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T22:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/spacex-elon-musk-shares-photo-of-drone-ship-that-enables-more-missions"},"modified":"2021-09-14T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T22:23:29","slug":"spacex-elon-musk-shares-photo-of-drone-ship-that-enables-more-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/spacex-elon-musk-shares-photo-of-drone-ship-that-enables-more-missions","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX: Elon Musk shares photo of drone ship that enables more missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-elon-musk-shares-photo-of-drone-ship-that-enables-more-missions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A Shortfall of Gravitas: SpaceX\u2019s new drone ship detailed<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The ship supported its first mission on August 29. This was the 23rd Commercial Resupply Services mission, the latest in a series of launches for NASA that sends cargo to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Shortfall of Gravitas<\/em> is a notable upgrade over previous ships. SpaceX explained during the mission launch livestream that it improves over its predecessors with a fully autonomous operation procedure. That means it can travel to sea, find its position, receive the rocket, grab the rocket with the \u201coctograbber\u201d robot and return it to land \u2014 all autonomously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Shortfall of Gravitas: SpaceX\u2019s new drone ship detailed The ship supported its first mission on August 29. This was the 23rd Commercial Resupply Services mission, the latest in a series of launches for NASA that sends cargo to the International Space Station. A Shortfall of Gravitas is a notable upgrade over previous ships. SpaceX [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,2019,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127665","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}