Posted on 12/03/2011 7:16:53 AM PST by blam
“I think it is a test of flight controls, and heat shields, but it could have launched a small satellite, but some here cannot get it in their head that the thing is traveling at 17,000 miles per hour.”
It has already completed one multi-month mission, and successfully landed autonomously - a first. It’s a showcase of the advantages of unmanned space vehicles.
Different craft than the first one.
Wrong, maybe the same craft, it may stay up there if they do not get it back soon.
I doubt it's "suborbital" if it's been in orbit for almost nine months. It's "up there" until someone orders it back.
Regards,
GtG
“Wrong, maybe the same craft, it may stay up there if they do not get it back soon.”
Apparently we lucky taxpayers own at least two of them, this one is OTV-2. The one used in the earlier mission is OTV-1.
Vehicle link:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Boeing_X-37
Current mission link:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/USA-226
I seriously doubt there’s a capability issue, I think they just want it to stay up a bit longer. Maybe it’s observing Phobos-Grunt...
LOL, I found a conspiracy web sight where people list all the crazy things they think this toy is capable of. LOL, the rod thing is one most crazy. I think they are testing the beam me up stuff. Ha, ha.
The Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator comes standard.
"We initially planned for a nine-month mission, which we are roughly at now, but we will continue to extend the mission as circumstances allow," Lt. Col. Tom McIntyre, the spacecraft's systems program director, said in a statement.Nine months is the length of time it takes to get to Mars...
Be discrete.
We told them in 1947 that we'd return the bodies once we were capable.
Heh heh... I’ve tried to be discreet, but there are odd problems. That foil-like stuff? I tried to crumple it into a ball and hide it, but it kept flattening out and pushing the drawer open.
My, we are a beacon of hope today.
You sound like me.
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