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August 13th, 2015
Credit: ULA
The fourth mission of the pilotless X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is nearing 100 days of flight at month’s end, testing and making use of a cargo bay of payloads. Its mission – or multiple duties – remains classified.
The Air Force launched the winged craft, designated OTV-4 and codenamed AFSPC-5, aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on May 20 of this year.I put together this overview on the robotic space plane’s current mission.
One added mystery: Where will the robotic space plane land after mission-complete? It could be Florida, from whence the vehicle took to space.
Former shuttle processing area at the Kennedy Space Center has been overhauled by Boeing to prep the military’s secretive X-37B space plane.
Credit: Malcolm Glenn
For more details, check out my Space.com story at:
US Military’s Top-Secret X-37B Space Plane Mission Nears 3-Month Mark
by Leonard David, Space.com’s Space Insider Columnist
August 13, 2015 01:20pm ET
http://www.space.com/30245-x37b-military-space-plane-100-days.html
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