The X-37B space plane ahead is seen tucked inside the payload fairing of its Atlas V rocket ahead of a May 17, 2020 launch. (Image credit: U.S. Air Force) To that end, this mission will have even more experiments than previous flights. That's thanks to the addition of a new servi...
5月17日，美国太空部队的神秘X-37B太空飞机在佛罗里达成功发射升空，执行第六次神秘任务。美国东部时间上午9点14分(格林尼治标准时间13点14分)，这艘秘密飞船搭乘联合发射联盟(United Launch Alliance)的阿特拉斯5号火箭，从卡纳维拉尔角空军基地的41号航天发射场发射升空。周六早上，佛罗里达州发射场的恶劣天气迫使UL...
The space plane will also operate in a higher-inclination orbit on the OTV-5 mission than it has during any other mission, Air Force officials said. The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane fleet has begun its fifth secret flight with the launch of the OTV-5 mission on Sept. 7, 20...
In addition, "this mission will host the Air Force Research Laboratory Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader payload to test experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipe technologies in the long duration space environment." This was the X-37B program's first launch on a SpaceX Falcon...
Launch date set for "secret" X-37B spaceplane mission The US Space Force has announced the launch date of its not-so-secret top secret spaceplane. The X-37B Mission 7 will lift off from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on December 7 atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for the first ...
Robotic space plane X-37B launched for classified Air Force missionBy W.J. Hennigan
28 for the launch of the U.S. military's X-37B robot spaceplane on its seventh mission to orbit. "Now targeting no earlier than Thursday, December 28 for Falcon Heavy to launch USSF-52 to orbit from Florida," SpaceX said in a post on X on Friday, after ...
Space Force will launch the Air Force's secretive X-37B spaceplane on its sixth and potentially longest flight. Among the tech on board is an experimental system that turns collected solar energy into microwave beams that could power other objects in space or on Earth....
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