{"id":152843,"date":"2022-12-14T13:25:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T19:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/watch-a-space-habitat-prototype-for-orbital-reef-explode-into-pieces-in-dramatic-video"},"modified":"2022-12-14T13:25:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T19:25:23","slug":"watch-a-space-habitat-prototype-for-orbital-reef-explode-into-pieces-in-dramatic-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/watch-a-space-habitat-prototype-for-orbital-reef-explode-into-pieces-in-dramatic-video","title":{"rendered":"Watch a space habitat prototype for Orbital Reef explode into pieces in dramatic video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-a-space-habitat-prototype-for-orbital-reef-explode-into-pieces-in-dramatic-video2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Orbital Reef is one of NASA\u2019s in-development successors for the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra Space, the company developing a new space station called Orbital Reef alongside Jeff Bezos\u2019s Blue Origin, just blew up a small prototype for an inflatable astronaut habitat, a recent press statement (Dec .13) reveals.<\/p>\n<p>The company conducted what it calls the \u201cultimate burst pressure test\u201d (UBP) as part of the development of Orbital Reef, which is one of several privately-developed successors to the International Space Station that have been funded by NASA.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Blue Origin.<\/p>\n<p>Worry not, space habitat enthusiasts, as the explosion was intentional and it was carried out to make Orbital Reef as safe as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orbital Reef is one of NASA\u2019s in-development successors for the ISS. Sierra Space, the company developing a new space station called Orbital Reef alongside Jeff Bezos\u2019s Blue Origin, just blew up a small prototype for an inflatable astronaut habitat, a recent press statement (Dec .13) reveals. The company conducted what it calls the \u201cultimate burst [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152843","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=152843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}