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The X-37 lands automatically upon returning from orbit and is the third reusable spacecraft to have such a capability, after the Soviet Buran shuttle [53] and the U.S. space shuttle, which had automatic landing capability by the mid-1990s, but never tested it. [54]
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.
The first flight began on April 22, 2010, and saw the first X-37B remain in orbit for a total of 224 days. The second flight, which was the second X-37B's inaugural mission, began on March 5, 2011 ...
OTV-2 (also known as USA-226 [1]) was the first flight of the second Boeing X-37B, an American unmanned robotic vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane.It was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on 5 March 2011, and landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base on 16 June 2012.
The X-37 arrived at the VIF on 8 April. On 9 April, a 24-hour delay was announced. It subsequently slipped a further 24 hours after the landing of Space Shuttle Discovery on Mission STS-131 was delayed, as the Eastern Range could not have been reconfigured quickly enough to accommodate both events on the same day. [13]
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.
Drop test performed in 2006. Seven flights to space since 22 April 2010 X-38: Scaled Composites: NASA 1998 Lifting body Crew Return Vehicle [51] X-39: Unknown USAF Future Aircraft Technology Enhancements (FATE) program. [52] Designation never officially assigned. [31] X-40A: Boeing USAF, NASA 1998 80% scale Space Maneuver Vehicle X-37 prototype ...
SpaceX reached several milestones in its Starship rocket system’s second integrated test flight before losing the booster and spacecraft. The most powerful rocket ever built just went farther ...