{"id":234444,"date":"2026-04-02T06:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/us-firm-flies-hypersonic-system-that-captures-images-through-plasma-layer"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:04:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:04:51","slug":"us-firm-flies-hypersonic-system-that-captures-images-through-plasma-layer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/us-firm-flies-hypersonic-system-that-captures-images-through-plasma-layer","title":{"rendered":"US firm flies hypersonic system that captures images through plasma layer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-firm-flies-hypersonic-system-that-captures-images-through-plasma-layer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Varda Space Industries has launched its sixth reentry capsule aboard SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-16 mission.<\/p>\n<p>The capsule launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 4:02 am PT (11:02 am UTC). It carried a US government-funded hypersonic technology experiment within its interior.<\/p>\n<p>The payload was designed to test a hypersonic navigation system capable of accurately identifying spacecraft position, even when communications are blocked by intense plasma sheaths during hypersonic flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varda Space Industries has launched its sixth reentry capsule aboard SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-16 mission. The capsule launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 4:02 am PT (11:02 am UTC). It carried a US government-funded hypersonic technology experiment within its interior. The payload was designed to test a hypersonic navigation system [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234444","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=234444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}