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U.S. Air Force Secret spaceplane, mystery mission. | |
| AwakeInTassie Offer Upgrade  User ID: 14900139  Australia04/07/2014 10:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The US Air Force’s secret space plane has been up in orbit for nearly 500 days — a space endurance record. But nearly a year and a half into the mission, the Pentagon still won’t say what the X-37B is doing up there, or when it might come back. The US Air Force boosted the robotic X-37B atop the nose of an Atlas-5 rocket in December 2012. Since then it’s orbited the Earth thousands of times, overflying such interesting places as North Korea and Iran. [link to au.news.yahoo.com (secure)]  Last Edited by AwakeInTassie on 04/07/2014 10:35 PM |
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| AwakeInTassie (OP) User ID: 14900139 Australia04/07/2014 10:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Similar to the Space Shuttle in appearance, the diminutive X-37B is about a quarter the size of the old shuttles. But there are major differences. Lacking a crew, the spacecraft has no cockpit windows. The X-37B has a payload bay about the size of a pickup truck bed. And while the original Space Shuttle could stay in orbit for up to 17 days—a limitation largely due to the needs of the crew—the first X-37B mission, OTV-1, spent 225 days in space under the guidance of Air Force space flight controllers at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. The second mission, OTV-2, handily doubled that number, clocking 469 days in orbit. OTV-3 is currently at 482 days and counting. [link to au.news.yahoo.com (secure)] |
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