{"id":72899,"date":"2017-09-28T18:42:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T01:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/lockheed-martin-reveals-mars-base-camp-to-orbit-red-planet-in-2028"},"modified":"2017-09-28T18:42:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T01:42:52","slug":"lockheed-martin-reveals-mars-base-camp-to-orbit-red-planet-in-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/lockheed-martin-reveals-mars-base-camp-to-orbit-red-planet-in-2028","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin reveals \u2018Mars base camp\u2019 to orbit red planet in 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lockheed-martin-reveals-mars-base-camp-to-orbit-red-planet-in-2028.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin has revealed plans to set up a \u2018Mars base camp\u2019 orbiting the red planet \u2014 and says it hopes to launch it within ten years.<\/p>\n<p>Using <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/nasa\/index.html\" id=\"mol-14324290-a495-11e7-ad89-7f112a6c918b\">NASA<\/a>\u2019s Orion spacecraft as the command deck, the orbiting outpost could give astronauts the ability to operate rovers and drones on the surface in real time, helping us better understand the Red Planet and plan for manned missions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The time is now,\u2019 Lockheed Martin said in a video revealing the project at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/adelaide\/index.html\" id=\"mol-143290b0-a495-11e7-ad89-7f112a6c918b\">Adelaide<\/a>, Australia, where it also showed off a lander that could eventually take astronauts form the station to the red planet\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4931320\/Lockheed-Martin-reveals-plan-2028-Mars-base-camp.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4931320\/Lockh...-camp.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed Martin has revealed plans to set up a \u2018Mars base camp\u2019 orbiting the red planet \u2014 and says it hopes to launch it within ten years. Using NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft as the command deck, the orbiting outpost could give astronauts the ability to operate rovers and drones on the surface in real time, helping [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72899","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}