The U.S. Space Force's robotic X-37B space plane is shown here in a 2009 photo at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The sixth X-37B mission launched into Earth orbit on May 17, 2020 and is still going. (Image credit: U.S. Air Force)
Space.com: US military's mysterious X-37B space plane zooms toward orbital record
The X-37B is just a week away from setting a new mission-duration mark.
The U.S. military's X-37B robotic space plane is closing in on a mission-duration record.
The X-37B launched to Earth orbit on May 17, 2020 on the sixth mission for the program, a flight known as Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6).
The Space Force minishuttle has now been aloft for 773 days. That's just a week shy of the X-37B record of 780 days, which was set on OTV-5. (That program record doesn't come close to the overall mark for an orbital stay; for example, the Landsat-5 satellite observed Earth from orbit for 29 years.)
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WNU Editor: The X-37B record is 780 days in space.
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