[Bobalu]

Tiny Rods from God?

Mysterious explosions in Iran?

It would not be hard to drop a kinetic object onto a spot as small as a 2 foot radius. Just needs a bit of maneuverability and cheap GPS guidance.

[Renderofveils]

My first thought at the headline was “What, did they lose it?”

[Covenantor]

Impressive performance so far it seems. Especially for something that looks as though it was assembled from parts found at the ‘Boneyard’ and reinforced with 100 mph duct tape.

[KrisKrinkle]

They don’t know how to get it down?

[Lx]

Is it using tiles like the shuttle or is it carbon-carbon on every surface or even better, a newer heat shield technology?

[Hot Tabasco]

Just a fancy looking satellite......

[Happy Rain]

Oh good grief!
The damn thing is a suborbital predator drone equipped with a high intensity long distance surgical laser designed to disable or destroy within the top secret and very precise coordinates of NSA GPS the electronic capabilities of the enemies of America.
It is one of Bush's War on Terrorism projects Obama was smart to preserve.
When he collapses the economy and declares martial law the dang things will take out the communications capabilities of any and all resistance movements—sort of like the Commies first taking over the radio stations in the days of the vacuum tube.
21st Century Socialist Man.

[Mike Darancette]

It supposedly went up with 9 months worth of experiments and now they want to extend the mission indefinitely? What, they got more experiments sent up to the X-37B? I think this project is for something other than experiments.

[paul51]

he he. The iranian mission testing is not complete yet.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks blam.

"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...