{"id":216578,"date":"2025-06-25T06:07:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/the-exploration-company-claims-partial-success-of-mission-possible-reentry-spacecraft"},"modified":"2025-06-25T06:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:07:44","slug":"the-exploration-company-claims-partial-success-of-mission-possible-reentry-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/the-exploration-company-claims-partial-success-of-mission-possible-reentry-spacecraft","title":{"rendered":"The Exploration Company claims partial success of Mission Possible reentry spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-exploration-company-claims-partial-success-of-mission-possible-reentry-spacecraft.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Exploration Company said it achieved \u201cpartial success\u201d on a test flight of a reentry capsule but lost the spacecraft before it splashed down.<\/p>\n<p>The company launched Mission Possible, a 1.6-ton reentry capsule, on SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-14 rideshare mission. The Falcon 9 carrying Mission Possible and the other rideshare payloads lifted off at 5:25 p.m. Eastern June 23 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.<\/p>\n<p>Mission Possible was the last payload scheduled to be deployed on Transporter-14, about two hours and 45 minutes after liftoff. The capsule would then perform a controlled reentry and splashdown in the north Pacific Ocean and then be recovered by a ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Exploration Company said it achieved \u201cpartial success\u201d on a test flight of a reentry capsule but lost the spacecraft before it splashed down. The company launched Mission Possible, a 1.6-ton reentry capsule, on SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-14 rideshare mission. The Falcon 9 carrying Mission Possible and the other rideshare payloads lifted off at 5:25 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216578","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}