{"id":150109,"date":"2022-11-14T13:33:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/us-military-drone-lands-safely-after-spending-record-breaking-908-days-in-space"},"modified":"2022-11-14T13:33:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:33:40","slug":"us-military-drone-lands-safely-after-spending-record-breaking-908-days-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/us-military-drone-lands-safely-after-spending-record-breaking-908-days-in-space","title":{"rendered":"US military drone lands safely after spending record-breaking 908 days in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-military-drone-lands-safely-after-spending-record-breaking-908-days-in-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With 3,774 days in space under its belt, the solar-powered X-37B has already traveled more than 1.3 billion miles.<\/p>\n<p>After a record-breaking 908 days in orbit for its sixth mission, a U.S. military drone touched down at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center, early on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the X-37B\u2019s first launch in 2010, it has shattered records and provided our nation with an unrivaled capability to rapidly test and integrate new space technologies,\u201d stated Jim Chilton, a senior vice president for Boeing, its developer.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n<p>The tiny space-shuttle X-37B, powered by solar energy carrying out scientific tests, broke the prior mission record, which took 780 days to complete, according to several media reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 3,774 days in space under its belt, the solar-powered X-37B has already traveled more than 1.3 billion miles. After a record-breaking 908 days in orbit for its sixth mission, a U.S. military drone touched down at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center, early on Saturday. \u201cSince the X-37B\u2019s first launch in 2010, it has shattered records [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,1633,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-solar-power","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150109","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}