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Military orbiter's landing rattles Florida with sonic boom (Update)
« on: May 08, 2017, 09:20:14 am »
Military orbiter's landing rattles Florida with sonic boom (Update)
May 7, 2017
 

U.S. military officials say an unmanned spacecraft orbiting Earth since May 2015 has landed in Florida.

The Air Force posted tweets that the X37B spacecraft landed Sunday morning at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral after 718 days in orbit.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-05-military-orbiter-rattles-florida-sonic.html#jCp
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Re: Military orbiter's landing rattles Florida with sonic boom (Update)
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2017, 09:56:49 am »
Rattles?  Made me sad.  Haven't heard this since the shuttle.
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Re: Military orbiter's landing rattles Florida with sonic boom (Update)
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2017, 06:15:58 pm »
When I was a kid we heard them all the time.  However, that was when Moby Dick was a minnow. :silly:
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