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The official Air Force statement is that the project is "an experimental test program to demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, uncrewed space test platform for the U.S. Air Force". [26] The primary objectives of the X-37B are twofold: reusable spacecraft technology and operating experiments which can be returned to Earth. [ 26 ]
The North American X-15 is a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft.
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 ...
The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar ("Dynamic Soarer") was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to develop a spaceplane that could be used for a variety of military missions, including aerial reconnaissance, bombing, space rescue, satellite maintenance, and as a space interceptor to sabotage enemy satellites. [1]
The U.S. military's experimental X-37B space plane landed on Sunday after completing a classified mission that lasted nearly two years, the Air Force said.
The X-37B space plane is one of the US military’s most intriguing and secretive projects. The spacecraft will hitch a ride on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket no sooner than Tuesday.
A month before launch, the Air Force announced that the mission would fly an X-37B spaceplane. [6] OTV-7 was deployed into a highly elliptical HEO orbit of 323 km (201 mi) x 38,838 km (24,133 mi) x 59.1° orbit. [6] [16] In Oct 2024, OTV-7 was due to undertake aerobraking maneuvers to safely dispose of its service module. [17]
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.