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The X-37 Orbital Test Vehicle is a reusable robotic spaceplane. It is an approximately 120-percent-scale derivative of the Boeing X-40, [6] [22] measuring over 29 feet (8.8 m) in length, and features two angled tail fins. [26] [41] The X-37 launches atop an Atlas V 501 [26] [19] or a SpaceX Falcon 9 [42] or Falcon Heavy [43] rocket.
OTV-7 is the fourth mission for the second X-37B built, and the seventh X-37B mission overall. It was flown on a Falcon Heavy in the expendable center core-recoverable side cores configuration, and launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A. It is the second classified flight of Falcon Heavy, awarded in June 2018.
USA-277, also referred to as Orbital Test Vehicle 5 (OTV-5), is the third flight of the second Boeing X-37B, an American unmanned vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane. It was launched to low Earth orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from LC-39A on September 7, 2017. Its mission designation is part of the USA series.
The U.S. Space Force’s Boeing-built X-37B space plane today completed yet another record-setting mission, landing like an airplane at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida 908 days after it ...
The RS1 launch vehicle first flew on Jan 10, 2023. The launch ended in failure. [78] — X-64 Invocon Inc. AFRL — Modular aerospike engine launch vehicle testbed [77] X-65 CRANE: Aurora Flight Sciences: DARPA 2025 Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors [79] X-66: Boeing: NASA 2028 Transonic Truss-Braced Wing [80]
Use of NASA logos, insignia and emblems is restricted per U.S. law 14 CFR 1221.; The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies.
USA-212 [1] was the first flight of the Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle 1 (X-37B OTV-1), an American robotic vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing (VTHL) spaceplane. It was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on 22 April 2010, and operated in low Earth orbit .
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