Air Force’s Mysterious X-37B Space Plane to Launch Next Week
Posted By: Oriana Pawlyk September 1, 2017
The U.S. Air Force’s covert X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is scheduled to launch Sept. 7.
For the first time, the experimental space plane will hitch a ride aboard Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the service announced Thursday.
Marking the fifth mission for the X-37B, the OTV “will also be launched into, and landed from, a higher inclination orbit than prior missions to further expand the X-37B’s orbital envelope,” the Air Force said in a release.
https://www.defensetech.org/2017/09/01/air-forces-mysterious-x-37b-space-plane-to-launch-next-week/
