{"id":140933,"date":"2022-06-22T04:03:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T09:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/pentagon-considers-using-spacex-for-fleet-of-militarized-starships"},"modified":"2022-06-22T04:03:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T09:03:12","slug":"pentagon-considers-using-spacex-for-fleet-of-militarized-starships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/pentagon-considers-using-spacex-for-fleet-of-militarized-starships","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon considers using SpaceX for fleet of militarized Starships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagon-considers-using-spacex-for-fleet-of-militarized-starships.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US Transportation Command, or USTRANSCOM, are a Pentagon office tasked with transporting cargo to American global military assets, announced that it was partnering with SpaceX to examine the feasibility of quickly blasting supplies into space and back to Earth rather than flying them through the air.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SpaceX is already functionally a defense contractor and has launched American military satellites and recently bolstered Ukrainian communication links with Starlink.<\/p>\n<p><b>Practical uses<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Three examples of potential \u201cDOD use cases for point-to-point space transportation,\u201d were presented in the document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Transportation Command, or USTRANSCOM, are a Pentagon office tasked with transporting cargo to American global military assets, announced that it was partnering with SpaceX to examine the feasibility of quickly blasting supplies into space and back to Earth rather than flying them through the air. SpaceX is already functionally a defense contractor and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140933","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}