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Space Plane Or Weapon? The X-37B Just Spent More Than 800 Days In Space
19FortyFive ^ | 9/3/2022 | Maya Carlin

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; History
KEYWORDS: 19fortyfiveistrash; astronomy; blogpimp; boeing; nasa; onthebrink; otv1; otv2; otv3; otv4; otv5; otv6; phantomworks; science; space; spaceexploration; spaceforce; usmilitary; x37b
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Sounds like a weapon to me...
1 posted on 09/03/2022 7:59:13 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
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To: whyilovetexas111

Setting a record time not landing. Maybe they were commanded by this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DMQJtKaXtM


2 posted on 09/03/2022 8:02:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: whyilovetexas111

More than 800 days , maybe it likes it up there


3 posted on 09/03/2022 8:13:22 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: BenLurkin
This guy
4 posted on 09/03/2022 8:15:55 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: whyilovetexas111
I just learned It's been around since 2017
5 posted on 09/03/2022 8:19:02 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: BenLurkin

Lessee, 800 days, that would be Trump’s administration right?


6 posted on 09/03/2022 8:19:53 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: whyilovetexas111
"In 2020, the X-37B was awarded the Collier Trophy for pushing 'the boundaries of flight and space exploration,'"


7 posted on 09/03/2022 8:21:47 AM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: whyilovetexas111

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


8 posted on 09/03/2022 8:23:17 AM PDT by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: whyilovetexas111

Either a cheap operating satellite, or quite likely, a very capable armed “drone”.


9 posted on 09/03/2022 8:36:41 AM PDT by Obadiah (Finishing is better than starting.)
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...or quite likely, a very capable armed “drone”.

Looking for MAGA targets, or uppity parents coming out of school board meetings.

10 posted on 09/03/2022 8:38:43 AM PDT by Obadiah (Finishing is better than starting.)
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To: whyilovetexas111

Obviously a Space Shuttle for Chipmunks. Likely Simon in command. . . (grin)


11 posted on 09/03/2022 8:46:31 AM PDT by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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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

And yet, here we are.

Regards,

12 posted on 09/03/2022 8:52:13 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: whyilovetexas111

Does “unique” need a qualifier. Can something be “more unique” when unique literally means “one of a kind?”


13 posted on 09/03/2022 8:57:30 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: whyilovetexas111

I hope it’s been putting mines on enemy satellites!

All set to go off remotely on order.


14 posted on 09/03/2022 9:07:37 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: devane617

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.


15 posted on 09/03/2022 9:07:45 AM PDT by I-ambush (We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
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To: whyilovetexas111

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.


16 posted on 09/03/2022 9:43:00 AM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe p)
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To: Vermont Lt

Believe it or not it gets worser.

Sorry, couldn’t help myself.


17 posted on 09/03/2022 10:26:51 AM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: whyilovetexas111
"Sounds like a weapon to me..."

Only the chicoms know for sure...

18 posted on 09/03/2022 10:42:23 AM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: devane617
"... all I know is I have a prostate the size of a football and I get dizzy when I stand up."

Get the green light laser treatment Prostate Vaporization
Procedure (PVP). It works. Look it up.

19 posted on 09/03/2022 11:12:45 AM PDT by StormEye
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To: reed13k

Sometimes I wonder if we will devolve to just making pictures in the dirt.


20 posted on 09/03/2022 11:25:13 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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