Posted on 09/03/2022 7:59:13 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
Last month, the Boeing-designed X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle surpassed 800 days in space, eclipsing its previous endurance record. This feat was marked by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Delta 9, which operates the 3rd Space Experimentation Squadron’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. Designed as part of a pilot test program aimed at showcasing technologies for reusable unmanned space tests, the X-37B remains one of the most unique aircrafts in the U.S. arsenal. The U.S. Air Force has previously flown five X-37B missions, OTV-1 through OTV-5. The platform most recently launched to Earth orbit in May 2020 on its sixth mission for the program, OTV-6.
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems was selected by NASA in the late 1990’s to design and produce an orbital vehicle. The company’s advanced prototyping branch, Phantom Works, was tasked with this assignment. Originally founded by McDonnell Douglass, this branch continued to function within Boeing and has been instrumental in previous projects including the “Bird of Prey” and X-32 Joint Strike Fighter. Over the span of four years, approximately $192 million was spent on the X-37B project. By 2002, NASA’s new Space Launch Initiative framework allocated an additional $300 million contract to Boeing to fund the project in part.
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Setting a record time not landing. Maybe they were commanded by this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DMQJtKaXtM
More than 800 days , maybe it likes it up there
Lessee, 800 days, that would be Trump’s administration right?
all I know is I have a prostate the size of a football and I get dizzy when I stand up. I’m too old to care about stuff like this
Either a cheap operating satellite, or quite likely, a very capable armed “drone”.
Looking for MAGA targets, or uppity parents coming out of school board meetings.
Obviously a Space Shuttle for Chipmunks. Likely Simon in command. . . (grin)
And yet, here we are.
Regards,
Does “unique” need a qualifier. Can something be “more unique” when unique literally means “one of a kind?”
I hope it’s been putting mines on enemy satellites!
All set to go off remotely on order.
If you are on Flomax (tamsulosin) for your prostate, that is what is probably causing your dizziness. Ask about other ways to treat your prostate symptoms.
Denials, of course, are meaningless. I wonder what payload weight is possible. One of these things with a mini nuke reactor and a plasma laser would seem to make a dandy anti missile weapon, even against the hypersonics.
Believe it or not it gets worser.
Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
Only the chicoms know for sure...
Get the green light laser treatment Prostate Vaporization
Procedure (PVP). It works. Look it up.
Sometimes I wonder if we will devolve to just making pictures in the dirt.
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