{"id":59714,"date":"2020-05-17T22:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T14:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ula-launches-x-37b-spaceplane-for-us-space-force\/"},"modified":"2020-05-17T22:30:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T14:30:42","slug":"ula-launches-x-37b-spaceplane-for-us-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ula-launches-x-37b-spaceplane-for-us-space-force\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA Launches X-37B Spaceplane for US Space Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>United Launch Alliance<\/strong> (ULA) launched the Atlas V 501 from Space Launch Complex-41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday, at 9:14 a.m. EDT, carrying the USSF-7 mission for the <strong>U.S. Space Force<\/strong>. The launch was delayed one day due to bad weather.&nbsp;It marked the sixth flight of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-6) and ULA\u2019s second mission for the U.S. Space Force.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Boeing<\/strong>-built X-37B is an autonomous spaceplane. It was first launched in April 2010. According to Boeing, the X-37B was designed for missions of 270 days duration, but has set endurance records during each of its five previous flights. Most recently, X-37B spent 780 days on orbit before returning to Earth in October 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The mission also deployed FalconSat-8, a small satellite developed by the U.S. Air Force Academy and sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to conduct experiments on orbit. Two <strong>NASA<\/strong> experiments and an experiment sponsored by the Naval Research Laboratory were also on board.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe success of this mission resulted from collaboration with our customer while working through challenging, and ever changing, health and safety conditions,\u201d said&nbsp;Gary Wentz, ULA vice president of Government and Commercial Programs. \u201cWe were honored to partner with the U.S. Space Force to dedicate this mission to first responders, front-line workers, and those affected by COVID-19. It is truly a unique time in our history and I want to thank the entire team for their continued dedication and focus on mission success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched the Atlas V 501 from Space Launch Complex-41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday, at 9:14 a.m. EDT, carrying the USSF-7 mission for the U.S. Space Force. The launch was delayed one day due to bad weather.&nbsp;It marked the sixth flight of the X-37B Orbital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}