{"id":106364,"date":"2025-08-24T10:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/106364\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T10:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:43:17","slug":"another-us-military-mini-shuttle-launches-on-a-secret-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/106364\/","title":{"rendered":"Another US military mini shuttle launches on a secret mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mb2-plus4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mini Shuttle Launch.jpeg\" alt=\"A spacecraft prepares to launch.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"default-font lh-default ma0 mh3 mt0 pb3\">\n\t\t\t\tThis image provided by Space X shows a Space X rocket carrying the U.S. Space Force\u2019s mini shuttle preparing to launch on a secret mission, Wednesday , Aug. 20, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, Fla.  (Space X via AP)<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">Another U.S. military mini shuttle blasted off Thursday night to conduct classified experiments in space.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">Launched by SpaceX, the space plane with no one aboard took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It\u2019s the eighth such flight for the test vehicles known as X-37B. This one will test laser communications and safe navigation without GPS, according to the U.S. Space Force.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">It\u2019s not yet clear how long the mini shuttle will remain aloft. The last X-37B circled the globe for a little over a year before returning to Earth in March. Previous missions have lasted months to years.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">The Boeing-made reusable space planes were first launched in 2010 and are 29 feet long with a wingspan of almost 15 feet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">AP science writer Adithi Ramakrishnan contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This image provided by Space X shows a Space X rocket carrying the U.S. Space Force\u2019s mini shuttle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-106364","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\/106364","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=106364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}