{"id":129540,"date":"2021-10-26T15:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T22:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/new-hypersonic-space-plane-is-called-the-sexbomb-for-some-reason"},"modified":"2021-10-26T15:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T22:22:17","slug":"new-hypersonic-space-plane-is-called-the-sexbomb-for-some-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/new-hypersonic-space-plane-is-called-the-sexbomb-for-some-reason","title":{"rendered":"New Hypersonic Space Plane Is Called the \u201cSexbomb\u201d for Some Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-hypersonic-space-plane-is-called-the-sexbomb-for-some-reason2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.o.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WZ32gSLNHfA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A Canadian aerospace company has chosen an eyebrow-raising name for a hypersonic space plane it plans to launch in 2022: \u201cSexbomb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Space Engine Systems (SES) announced that it wants to launch the, uh, Sexbomb in Manitoba, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2021\/10\/22\/2318858\/0\/en\/Space-Engine-Systems-to-test-Mach-5-Spaceplane-in-Manitoba-Canada.html\" class=\"\"> press release<\/a> from the company<i>. <\/i> The vehicle will be used to test the company\u2019s spacecraft engine prototype.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you might be wondering what\u2019s with the name. Perhaps it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WZ32gSLNHfA\" class=\"\"> inspired by Tom Jones<\/a> 0 or maybe the employees are all just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tceoGDRxtcI\" class=\"\"> huge Scott Pilgrim fans<\/a>. Or, more realistically, maybe it\u2019s just a grabby name from <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/elon-musk-giant-robot-chopsticks\" class=\"\"> Elon Musk\u2019s meme marketing playbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.o. A Canadian aerospace company has chosen an eyebrow-raising name for a hypersonic space plane it plans to launch in 2022: \u201cSexbomb.\u201d Space Engine Systems (SES) announced that it wants to launch the, uh, Sexbomb in Manitoba, according to a press release from the company. The vehicle will be used to test the company\u2019s spacecraft [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129540","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=129540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}