30 October 2019
Questions surround US top-secret spaceplane mission
... US Airforce announced that its X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission 5 (OTV-5) successfully landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility, having spent 780 days in space conducting on-orbit experiments. The lengthy mission meant that...
08 May 2017
"Secret" space plane lands after 2 years in orbit
...37B, however according to the U.S militaries X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) Fact Sheet, the OTV “is an experimental test program to demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, unmanned space test platform for the U.S. Air Force.” It further...
04 September 2017
Secret spaceplane set for another launch
...Force’s mysterious, unmanned spacecraft known as X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is set for launch again this.... Past missions have seen the craft spend up to 718 days in orbit. However, for this launch the OTV is expected to be “launched into,...
02 December 2014
X-37B spaceplane lands safely
The US Air Force landed its uncrewed and reusable X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OV-1) spaceplane at Vandenberg AFB on 17 October 2014, after 674 days in orbit. Boeing manages the vehicle and its secret mission work, which likely includes optical and ...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
... Australia can continue to play an important role as a responsible global space citizen. The US Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. Space assets Globally, most countries are heavily dependent on space assets for the functioning of their economies...
29 March 2021
Russia to develop new uncrewed spaceplane
...” will have the same dimensions as the US’s X-37B spacecraft. Developed by Boeing, the X-37B – also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) – is about 8.8 meters (29 feet) long and 2.9 metres (9.5 feet) tall, with a wingspan just less than 4.6 metres...
