{"id":203522,"date":"2025-01-10T19:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T01:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/japans-winged-reusable-rocket-plans-to-take-off-land-like-airplane"},"modified":"2025-01-10T19:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T01:06:22","slug":"japans-winged-reusable-rocket-plans-to-take-off-land-like-airplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/japans-winged-reusable-rocket-plans-to-take-off-land-like-airplane","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s winged reusable rocket plans to take off, land like airplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/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\/zqE-ultsWt0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, if all goes to plan, the Eco Rocket could become Japan\u2019s first operational spaceplane. On its website, Space Walker explains that \u201cwe envision sustainable commercial space transportation for all, as familiar and accessible as commercial air travel today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company says it has patented the technology behind a world-first lightweight-composite cryogenic propellant tank. It also emphasizes the value of reusability, which has been shown in practice by SpaceX\u2019s incredibly successful Falcon 9 program. Space Walker will go the extra mile for sustainability, though, as the Eco Rocket will use a carbon-neutral liquefied biomethane propellant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, if all goes to plan, the Eco Rocket could become Japan\u2019s first operational spaceplane. On its website, Space Walker explains that \u201cwe envision sustainable commercial space transportation for all, as familiar and accessible as commercial air travel today.\u201d The company says it has patented the technology behind a world-first lightweight-composite cryogenic propellant tank. It [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203522","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=203522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}