X-37B’s return to Cape Canaveral in imagesOctober 29, 2019 Stephen Clark
The X-37B after touchdown at the Shuttle Landing Facility. Credit: U.S. Air Forcehttps://spaceflightnow.com/2019/10/29/x-37bs-return-to-cape-canaveral-in-images/Secretive X-37B Returns in Darkness After 780 Day Space MissionBy Mike Killian, on October 27th, 2019
Residents of Florida’s ‘Space Coast’ in northern Brevard County were awakened with sonic booms before the crack of dawn this morning, thanks to the unannounced arrival of the secretive U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane, which landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 3:51 a.m. local after spending 780 days in space.
Doing what? Who knows, but today’s landing closes out the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) program’s 5th flight, breaking its previous record for time in space on a mission and accumulating a grand
total of 2,865 days on-orbit through the program, which “performs risk reduction, experimentation and concept of operations development for reusable space vehicle technologies,” according to the USAF. (...)
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