{"id":601,"date":"2025-04-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2025-05-01T21:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:44:20","slug":"the-u-s-is-building-a-gas-station-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/the-u-s-is-building-a-gas-station-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. is building a gas station in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/the-us-is-building-a-gas-station-in-space_suft.640.jpg\">&#8220;If you run out of fuel, you run out of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some 22,500 miles above <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/27468\/the-farthest-away-pictures-of-earth-ever-taken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earth<\/a>, a spacecraft filled with thruster fuel will gas up two orbiting <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/53005\/a-secretive-us-spaceplane-just-snapped-a-stunning-view-of-earth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Space Force<\/a> assets.<\/p>\n<p>The high-altitude endeavor, undertaken by the orbital servicing enterprise <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/49973\/spacecraft-makes-daring-approach-of-metal-object-in-earths-orbit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Astroscale<\/a> U.S., is slated to occur in the summer of 2026, the company announced this week. This \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you run out of fuel, you run out of life.&#8221; Some 22,500 miles above Earth, a spacecraft filled with thruster fuel will gas up two orbiting Space Force assets. The high-altitude endeavor, undertaken by the orbital servicing enterprise Astroscale U.S., is slated to occur in the summer of 2026, the company announced this week. This \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}