{"id":26348,"date":"2016-06-02T00:47:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T07:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/darpa-moving-forward-with-drone-space-plane"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:18:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:18:45","slug":"darpa-moving-forward-with-drone-space-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/darpa-moving-forward-with-drone-space-plane","title":{"rendered":"DARPA moving forward with drone \u2018space plane\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-moving-forward-with-drone-space-plane.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US military\u2019s research arm says its robotic \u201cspace plane\u201d program has received funding for the next phase of development. Aiming to provide a quicker and cheaper way to launch satellites, the still-conceptual vehicle may fly as early as 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program is intended to prove that <em>\u201croutine and responsive access to space can be achieved at costs an order of magnitude lower than with today\u2019s systems,\u201d<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/news-events\/2016-04-07b\">according<\/a> to Jess Sponable, program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).<\/p>\n<p>After reviewing studies submitted by several aerospace conglomerates, DARPA has now issued a call for design proposals. The deadline for submissions is July 22.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/345110-darpa-space-plane-drone\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/345110-darpa-space-plane-drone\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military\u2019s research arm says its robotic \u201cspace plane\u201d program has received funding for the next phase of development. Aiming to provide a quicker and cheaper way to launch satellites, the still-conceptual vehicle may fly as early as 2019. The Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program is intended to prove that \u201croutine and responsive access to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26348","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61678,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26348\/revisions\/61678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}