{"id":25558,"date":"2016-05-10T14:04:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T21:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/darpa-robot-space-plane-will-replace-the-space-shuttle"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:00:11","slug":"darpa-robot-space-plane-will-replace-the-space-shuttle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/darpa-robot-space-plane-will-replace-the-space-shuttle","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Robot Space Plane will replace the Space Shuttle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-robot-space-plane-will-replace-the-space-shuttle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides it not being a true space vehicle, XS-1 will be notable because it\u2019ll be a drone, a robot space ship.<\/p>\n<p>It will launch itself to the edge of space (basically 100 kilometers up there) and release its payload into LEO. It\u2019s being called a plane because it\u2019ll take-off and land like a plane on every mission.<\/p>\n<p>DARPA\u2019s toy will then be refueled and launched again. DARPA wants its space plane to be so reliable it can fly \u201c10 times in 10 days.\u201d DARPA expects the cost of a space plane flight to come to a measly $5 million compared to the $450 million once spent to launch a space shuttle.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinatopix.com\/articles\/86341\/20160510\/darpa-robot-space-plane-will-replace-shuttle.htm\">http:\/\/www.chinatopix.com\/articles\/86341\/20160510\/darpa-robo...huttle.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides it not being a true space vehicle, XS-1 will be notable because it\u2019ll be a drone, a robot space ship. It will launch itself to the edge of space (basically 100 kilometers up there) and release its payload into LEO. It\u2019s being called a plane because it\u2019ll take-off and land like a plane on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25558","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67528,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25558\/revisions\/67528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}