US military's mysterious X-37B space plane zooms toward orbital record

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US military's mysterious X-37B space plane zooms toward orbital record
Leonard David - Yesterday 4:35 PM
 
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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