A stealth space shuttle: X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle launched

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Re: A stealth space shuttle: X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle launched

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After a record-breaking 780 days circling the Earth, the U.S. Air Force's mysterious X-37B unmanned space plane dropped out of orbit and landed safely on the same runway that the space shuttle once used.

It was the fifth acknowledged mission for the vehicle, built by Boeing at the aerospace company's Phantom Works.
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As in previous missions, many of the details about the vehicle's activities in the past two years are being kept under wraps. One experiment was to "test experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipe technologies in the long-duration space environment," according to the Air Force statement.

Randy Walden, the director of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, said the latest X-37B mission "successfully hosted Air Force Research Laboratory experiments, among others, as well as providing a ride for small satellites."
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"The statement that this @usairforce X-37 flight deployed small satellites is alarming, since the US has not reported those deployments in its UN Registration Convention submissions," McDowell tweeted. "This would be the first time that either the USA or Russia has blatantly flouted the Convention."
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Geez I really want to post some funny political pics in here for this but Ill walk over to that thread.
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Re: A stealth space shuttle: X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle launched

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Moat_Man wrote: Sun May 17, 2020 10:22 pm It went up again.
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The U.S. military's X-37B robotic space plane is closing in on a mission-duration record.

The X-37B launched to Earth orbit on May 17, 2020 on the sixth mission for the program, a flight known as Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6).

The Space Force minishuttle has now been aloft for 773 days. That's just a week shy of the X-37B record of 780 days, which was set on OTV-5.
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