by Jack Holland – Jan. 23rd, 2012
Initially launched in the Spring of 2010 as Orbital mission USA-212, the X-37B unmanned space vehicle is the US Government’s latest high tech spy plane. A second vehicle, OTV-2 named USA-226 was launched on March 5th, 2011 and has been up in the air for over 321 days now. Although actual mission details are Top Secret and have been kept under wraps by the U.S. Government, amateur astonomists tracking its space flight claim it has a space trajectory that takes it over North Korea, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Source Space.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration
X-37B ORBITAL TEST VEHICLE (Reprint)
Mission
The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, or OTV, is an experimental test program to demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, unmanned space test platform for the U.S. Air Force. The primary objectives of the X-37B are twofold: reusable spacecraft technologies for America’s future in space and operating experiments which can be returned to, and examined, on Earth. Click here to read entire essay…
