{"id":101857,"date":"2025-08-22T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/101857\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:06:10","slug":"space-x-successfully-launches-us-military-spaceplane-dw-08-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/101857\/","title":{"rendered":"Space X successfully launches US military spaceplane \u2013 DW \u2013 08\/22\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Thursday night, carrying a classified <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/united-states-of-america\/t-19065189\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US<\/a> military spaceplane <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/space\/t-64606735\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">into orbit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was the eighth flight of an X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. No one was on board the rocket, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Space Force not disclosing length of mission<\/p>\n<p>The X-37B, built by Boeing, is an uncrewed and autonomous spacecraft employed by the US military to test technology and conduct experiments in both high and low Earth orbits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These operational demonstrations and experiments comprise next-generation technologies, including laser communications and the highest-performing quantum inertial sensor ever tested in space,&#8221; the US Space Force said in July.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mission 8 will contribute to improving the resilience, efficiency and security of US\u00a0space-based communications architectures,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p><img data-format=\"MASTER_LANDSCAPE\" data-id=\"73729311\" data-url=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/73729311_${formatId}.jpg\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" alt=\"SpaceX's Flacon 9 rocket shows fire coming out of the bottom\" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; max-height: 0;\"\/>Previous X-37B space drones have carried out missions for months or yearsImage: Jennifer Briggs\/ZUMA\/picture alliance<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how long the mini shuttle will remain in orbit. On a previous mission, the drone circled Earth for more than a year before returning in March.<\/p>\n<p>Powered by solar panels, the reusable space planes were first launched in 2010. They measure 30 feet (nine meters) long with a 15-foot wingspan.<\/p>\n<p>Edited by: Louis Oelofse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Thursday night, carrying a classified US military spaceplane into orbit. It was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-101857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}