{"id":57705,"date":"2017-05-25T06:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/darpa-picks-boeing-to-build-its-new-space-plane"},"modified":"2017-05-25T06:22:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:22:28","slug":"darpa-picks-boeing-to-build-its-new-space-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/darpa-picks-boeing-to-build-its-new-space-plane","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Picks Boeing To Build Its New Space Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tEZDWoJdC7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The research agency hopes its XS-1 jumpstarts a whole new industry of very-low-cost satellite launches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boeing did such a good job plotting <\/strong>out the commercial future of a reusable satellite-launching plane that they\u2019re going to get to build it \u2014 and just maybe, launch a whole new low-cost satellite industry.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/news-events\/2017-05-24\">announced<\/a> that Boeing had won the contract for Phases 2 and 3 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/26530-xs1-experimental-military-space-plane-pictures.html\">XS-1 \u201cspace plane,\u201d<\/a> a reusable craft meant to launch 10 satellites in 10 days by 2021 or so, a goal that is key to the future of global military satellite communications.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/05\/darpa-picks-boeing-build-its-new-space-plane\/138148\/?oref=DefenseOneFB&utm_content=bufferab0f3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/05\/darpa-picks-boe...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The research agency hopes its XS-1 jumpstarts a whole new industry of very-low-cost satellite launches. Boeing did such a good job plotting out the commercial future of a reusable satellite-launching plane that they\u2019re going to get to build it \u2014 and just maybe, launch a whole new low-cost satellite industry. On Thursday, the Defense Advanced [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57705","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}