{"id":220627,"date":"2025-08-21T12:19:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/us-secret-unmanned-military-space-plane-to-embark-on-new-mission"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:19:51","slug":"us-secret-unmanned-military-space-plane-to-embark-on-new-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/us-secret-unmanned-military-space-plane-to-embark-on-new-mission","title":{"rendered":"US\u2019 secret, unmanned military space plane to embark on new mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-secret-unmanned-military-space-plane-to-embark-on-new-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>US secret military space plane to embark on new mission with undisclosed goal.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Developed by Boeing, the uncrewed spacecraft is used by the U.S. military to conduct experiments in high and low Earth orbits.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing earlier claimed that the space plane is equipped with state-of-the-art technologies that provide <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/transportation\/hydrogen-flights-to-cover-750-miles-travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow\">exceptional<\/a> performance and durability. Its modular design allows for a wide range of experiments and missions, making it a versatile and valuable asset in space exploration.<\/p>\n<p>While it looks like a smaller version of the now-retired space shuttle, the X-37B can\u2019t get into orbit without a boost. For this upcoming mission, it\u2019s hitching a ride on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket inside the rocket\u2019s fairing, a protective enclosure made of carbon composite that keeps it safe during the launch until it\u2019s ready to be released into orbit, reported <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/us-space-force-launch-secret-military-spaceplane\/story?id=124789931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>ABC News<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US secret military space plane to embark on new mission with undisclosed goal. Developed by Boeing, the uncrewed spacecraft is used by the U.S. military to conduct experiments in high and low Earth orbits. Boeing earlier claimed that the space plane is equipped with state-of-the-art technologies that provide exceptional performance and durability. Its modular design [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220627","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}