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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]
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 .
A Tennessee native is the co-pilot for the Boeing Starliner this weekend. Here's everything to know about the NASA launch. Boeing's Starliner launch: Where, when you can watch Tennessee astronaut ...
OTV-6 is the third mission for the first X-37B built, and the sixth X-37B mission overall. It flew on an Atlas V in the 501 configuration, and launched from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41. [4] This flight is the first time the space plane has been equipped with a service module to carry additional pieces for experiments.