{"id":177549,"date":"2023-12-06T11:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/nasa-says-spacexs-next-starship-flight-could-test-refueling-tech"},"modified":"2023-12-06T11:26:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:26:49","slug":"nasa-says-spacexs-next-starship-flight-could-test-refueling-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/nasa-says-spacexs-next-starship-flight-could-test-refueling-tech","title":{"rendered":"NASA says SpaceX\u2019s next Starship flight could test refueling tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-says-spacexs-next-starship-flight-could-test-refueling-tech.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Individual technologies necessary for in-orbit cryogenic refueling are at a stage of development where they are \u201cready now to go into flight systems,\u201d Dankanich said, either with a demonstration in space or on an operational spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p><b>First, small steps<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By the fourth anniversary of those awards, only SpaceX appears to have a chance to complete the tasks outlined in its \u201cTipping Point\u201d award, valued at $53 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individual technologies necessary for in-orbit cryogenic refueling are at a stage of development where they are \u201cready now to go into flight systems,\u201d Dankanich said, either with a demonstration in space or on an operational spacecraft. First, small steps By the fourth anniversary of those awards, only SpaceX appears to have a chance to complete [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177549","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}