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Space.com: US Military Space Plane Wings Past 500 Days on Latest Mystery Mission
The secretive mission of a U.S. Air Force X-37B miniature space plane just winged past 500 days of flight.
The robotic drone is performing classified duties during the program’s fifth flight.
The current mission — known as Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-5) — was rocketed into Earth orbit on Sept. 7, 2017, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.
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WNU Editor: 500 days is a long time.
Its just stuck up there 😂
ReplyDeleteJokes aside, i would love to know what its doing up there. Probably something obvious and boring. But could be doing some really cool stuff!
8k HDTV, baby!
DeleteThis started under Obama. That dude knew watching Pelosi lie is best at 8k. #taxeswellspent
My guess is that it is there to provide backup communications/GPS during wartime when it is likely the existing infrastructure will be destroyed, which I think will happen very quickly.
ReplyDeletelooking for takeout places for Trump should he build hotels in outer space
ReplyDeleteMueller Witness’ Team Gamed Out Russian Meddling … in 2015
ReplyDeleteOne former analyst at the Wikistrat consulting firm called it ‘disturbing.’
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many hours have been spent by the Chinese and Russia trying their national best to hack this thing?
I'll say one thing this looks like it got a paint job at one of those $29.95 paint job outfits before launch.
If I had one of those, it wouldn't be looking down, it would be looking at other satellites. There are so many hobbyists tracking satellites, I wonder if this thing stays in the same orbit, or moves around. Mine would be moving around checking out the neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteMy bet is that its equipped with an AI that maps other countrys (ie. China) satellites behaviors and figures out what they are doing to assess which ones to take out first, in case.
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