{"id":163963,"date":"2025-08-21T14:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163963\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:21:10","slug":"us-space-forces-x-37b-prepares-for-eighth-mission-future-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163963\/","title":{"rendered":"US Space Force\u2019s X-37B Prepares for Eighth Mission, Future Uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">As the US Space Force\u2019s shadowy spaceplane, the X-37B, prepares for an eighth lengthy orbital mission, its role in the superpower\u2019s fast-expanding space defense efforts such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-14\/golden-dome-still-shrouded-in-mystery-even-for-its-builders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Golden Dome<\/a> may be limited \u2014 and the future of winged spacecraft is unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The uncrewed vehicle is slated to take off Thursday atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:50 p.m. local time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/ussf36\" title=\"SpaceX USSF-36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">according to SpaceX.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the US Space Force\u2019s shadowy spaceplane, the X-37B, prepares for an eighth lengthy orbital mission, its role&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[14183,94639,276,20272,723,31286,1802,165,159,10258,94638,783,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-163963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-air-force","9":"tag-boeing-co-the","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-department-of-defense","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-hardware","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-seven","18":"tag-sierra-space-corp","19":"tag-space","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115067203948355833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}