{"id":88048,"date":"2025-08-22T06:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/88048\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T06:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:17:10","slug":"spacex-launches-eighth-mission-of-the-x-37b-military-spaceplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/88048\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches eighth mission of the X-37B military spaceplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Aug. 21 launched the U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane to low Earth orbit for its eighth mission.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading this article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Register now and get<br \/>3 free articles every month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">You\u2019ll also receive our weekly SpaceNews This Week newsletter every Friday. Opt-out at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"#signin_modal\">Sign in to an existing account<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Get unlimited access to<br \/>SpaceNews.com now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:16px\">As low as $5 per week*<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Cancel anytime. Sales tax may apply. No refunds. (*Billed quarterly)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/subscribe\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See all subscription options<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/sandra-erwin\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sandra-Erwin-150x150.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSandra Erwin writes about military space programs, policy, technology and the industry that supports this sector. She has covered the military, the Pentagon, Congress and the defense industry for nearly two decades as editor of NDIA\u2019s National Defense&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/sandra-erwin\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Sandra Erwin\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Aug. 21 launched the U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,10419,66,6089,12712,52159],"class_list":["post-88048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-launch","tag-science","tag-sn","tag-space-force","tag-x-37b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}