{"id":13690,"date":"2025-03-29T11:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13690"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:31:16","slug":"invisible-x-37b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/29\/invisible-x-37b\/","title":{"rendered":"Invisible X-37B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tech\/13721855\/top-secret-us-spaceship-returns-to-earth-mysterious-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Sun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Top secret US spaceship returns to Earth after 434 days on mysterious mission\u2026 and is met by hazmat-clad ground crew<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The spaceship performed a never-before-seen &#8220;invisible&#8221; manoeuvre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/author\/lydia-doye\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lydia Doye<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1-1024x682.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1-1024x682.png 1024w, https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1-980x653.png 980w, https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1-480x320.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 landed at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/topic\/california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California<\/a>\u00a0where it was met by hazmat-clad ground crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spaceship began its return to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/topic\/earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Earth<\/a>\u00a0after successfully completing its &#8220;test and experimentation objectives&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The X-37B completed a never-before-seen aerobraking manoeuvre to change its orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aerobraking involves making several passes into the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere which causes drag to rapidly change the craft&#8217;s orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In doing so, the spaceship expends minimal fuel, making it temporarily invisible to other nations who could be tracking it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tech\/13721855\/top-secret-us-spaceship-returns-to-earth-mysterious-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Sun<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Sun Top secret US spaceship returns to Earth after 434 days on mysterious mission\u2026 and is met by hazmat-clad ground crew The spaceship performed a never-before-seen &#8220;invisible&#8221; manoeuvre by Lydia Doye The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 landed at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in\u00a0California\u00a0where it was met by hazmat-clad ground crew. The spaceship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}