{"id":13613,"date":"2010-09-10T14:45:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T20:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=13613"},"modified":"2010-09-08T14:52:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T20:52:37","slug":"a-fine-ship-dassault-aviations-civillain-suborbital-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/a-fine-ship-dassault-aviations-civillain-suborbital-spacecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fine Ship: Dassault Aviation&#8217;s Civillain Suborbital Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dassault-aviation.com\/en\/aviation\/press\/in-the-air\/in-the-air-2010\/suborbital-aviation-on-the-very-edge-of-space.html?L=1\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/orbshuttle1-thumb-550xauto-38336.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A shuttle by any other name.\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/orbshuttle1-thumb-550xauto-38336.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/orbshuttle1-thumb-550xauto-38336-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\nDassault Aviation wants to put civilians in space, too, and it plans to accomplish that with this air-launched reusable hypersonic vehicle. <a href=\"http:\/\/dvice.com\/archives\/2010\/05\/suborbital-spac.php\" class=\"external external_icon\">Based on NASA&#8217;s X-38 experimental plane, this one will launch off the wing of a commercial aircraft flying at about 25,000 feet, rocketing its six passengers at Mach 3.5 up to 62 miles high<\/a>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/dvice.com\/archives\/2010\/05\/suborbital-spac.php\" class=\"external external_icon\">dvice<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dassault-aviation.com\/en\/aviation\/press\/in-the-air\/in-the-air-2010\/suborbital-aviation-on-the-very-edge-of-space.html?L=1\" class=\"external external_icon\"> dassault aviation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dassault Aviation wants to put civilians in space, too, and it plans to accomplish that with this air-launched reusable hypersonic vehicle. Based on NASA&#8217;s X-38 experimental plane, this one will launch off the wing of a commercial aircraft flying at about 25,000 feet, rocketing its six passengers at Mach 3.5 up to 62 miles high. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,8,77],"tags":[3255,3254,3256,238,2862,3166,3253,1882,3257],"class_list":["post-13613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-technology","category-the-future","tag-a-fine-ship","tag-civillain","tag-dassault-aviation","tag-earth-orbit","tag-learning-to-fly","tag-let-us-return-to-space","tag-spacecraft","tag-spaceport","tag-suborbital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13616,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613\/revisions\/13616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}