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Top secret Spaceplane X-37B sets off on another mission

 
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Top secret Spaceplane X-37B sets off on another mission
The US Air Force has relaunched the first of its super-secret X-37B spaceplanes, the OTV-1, sending it on another mysterious mission in space. OTV-1's first mission was back in 2010.

[link to www.theregister.co.uk]
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Re: Top secret Spaceplane X-37B sets off on another mission
I wonder what the plane is for.

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12/12/2012 08:30 AM
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Question is whether or not this re-entry will be successful or not, as this is the second flight for this craft. The X-37B is designed to be a reusable space-craft. The tiles used for re-entry are similar to the ones that had been used on the "Space Shuttle" -- a name that perhaps needs to be revamped -- and there are reasonable concerns if there will be any problems on re-entry.
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12/12/2012 08:46 AM
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SEEMS awfully close to the NK launch, maybe we blast their satalite out of the sky LOL


12/12/2012=11 hahahahahahahahaha what will happen today......set the stage for 12/21/2012?
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Ed Dames and his remote viewing crew gave two markers that would happen just before the Killshot. The first was the launch of a North Korean missile, which happened yesterday. The second was a space shuttle being forced to land due to a meteor shower. The X-37B was launched today (looks very similar to a shuttle, only smaller). If this thing is forced down by a meteor shower (and one is predicted for Dec 13-14) then the Killshot is imminent!

December 21 anyone?
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Video from amateur astronomer Greg Roberts of OTV-3 (X-37B) and its centaur stage performing a retro burn shortly after launch:

The centaur stage would burn up in the atmosphere a short time later, having used its retroburn to put it on a course for re-entry, while the X-37B is now in a circular orbit.
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Video from amateur astronomer Greg Roberts of OTV-3 (X-37B) and its centaur stage performing a retro burn shortly after launch:

The centaur stage would burn up in the atmosphere a short time later, having used its retroburn to put it on a course for re-entry, while the X-37B is now in a circular orbit.
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That's really interesting. Thanks, Astro! Any idea why the military is interested in this? The only things I can think of are being able to keep automated drones in orbit at any given time to shoot down long range missles or deliver payloads in the field.
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Today I was wondering where this vehicle currently is/what plans are for it returning to Earth.....

Can anyone confirm that this site/tracking here is "REAL" and updated:

[link to www.n2yo.com]


Apparently, from what I could find, the mission details continue to remain secret with no details currently being disclosed or made public, right?
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Re: Top secret Spaceplane X-37B sets off on another mission
The US Air Force has relaunched the first of its super-secret X-37B spaceplanes, the OTV-1, sending it on another mysterious mission in space. OTV-1's first mission was back in 2010.

[link to www.theregister.co.uk]
 Quoting: Leslie Zevo


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Anyone has any news about its whereabouts/schedule?
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12/30/2012 04:44 AM
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You do realize that our submarines are fully capable of lobbing things into space from pretty much anywhere, right? I mean, even star trek made a movie about an ICBM that was modified to be a spaceship.
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this is primitive to what theyve got. ive seen a massive black and orange v shaped craft which could shoot across the sky in an instance .... well i hope its theirs!
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$347 billion dollars for the launch pad, another $50-100 million per ICBM, and lord knows how many billions of dollars R&D costs...

Yeah, it does sound fairly primitive, considering Shamoo could have a bad day and sink the sub.
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Anyone has any news about its whereabouts/schedule?
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Nope. Top secret. Joint mission DOD and USAF. You can track it here: [link to www.n2yo.com]
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If it were top secret, we wouldn't be talking about it.

It ain't rocket science.
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If it were top secret, we wouldn't be talking about it.

It ain't rocket science.
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Do you happen to know what the mission is? The experiments being conducted on board? No? Why is that? Oh yeah. It's a fucking secret! You're right. Not rocket science. Being a dick about it doesn't make you seem smarter, it just proves ignorance, by the way.
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Uh, it has the antichrist aboard, an alien education team, a human lady doctor conducting alien experiments and surgeries, a spiritual processing team for the recently deceased, a few religious artifacts (fakes?) and five (or seven) holographic (or real??) spirits.
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Uh, it has the antichrist aboard, an alien education team, a human lady doctor conducting alien experiments and surgeries, a spiritual processing team for the recently deceased, a few religious artifacts (fakes?) and five (or seven) holographic (or real??) spirits.
 Quoting: Who is Blue Fairy

Proof of advance miniaturisation technology.
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You don't know what the program does on a daily basis, yet you know about the program. If it WERE top-secret, you wouldn't even know about the program in the first place.
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You don't know what the program does on a daily basis, yet you know about the program. If it WERE top-secret, you wouldn't even know about the program in the first place.
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It's not really possible to hide things in orbit.

Even the stealthy satellites are often spotted, and there orbital parameters published by amateurs.
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Re: Top secret Spaceplane X-37B sets off on another mission
This thing was LOST in SPACE in 2010 for an entire week, I remember reading about it.

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