I think of it as a way to go in orbit and bring back enemy spy satellites for inspection. Figure out what the enemy is doing, and disrupt the enemy program at the same time. Of course, our military would publicly disavow any knowledge of what happened.
The “assumed” missions listed above are probably pretty well right on target.
Wait for a Chinese copy soon. (Thanks to Clinton.) We could have been working on this since the Dynasoar (dinosoar?) re-entry vehicles were dreamed up in the early 60’s ....)
But when you throw in the weight of the X-37B, you are talking about having to put at at least 10 times the weight of the satellite to cover for the mass of the vehicle.
Space Command must have access to space.