U.S. mysterious X - 37 b empty days the plane back to the great beyond the do... Whether it did.
X - 37 b scheduled for October launched its third, air force said, but two orbit predecessors, are still shrouded in a secret mission of unmanned spacecraft. On October space, called orbit test road vehicle 3 or OTV - 3 the exact time, also is temporary.
"We are happened in next month's launch of the X - 37 b the orbit, but launched the exact date is dependent on many factors, including a series of conditions and weather," air force spokesman lieutenant colonel John Dorrian told ABC news. 29 feet long vehicle will launch aboard "the universe god" five type rocket from cape canaveral, Florida, standing.
Pioneer sailing, called X - 37 b OTV - 1201 0 started in April, which lasted 225 days, and finally landed in California's vandenberg air force base, the same year in December. The second orbit, OTV - 2, landing on the same basis in the last six months, record 469 days tourism.
"For this third emission, and vehicle is same, we are considering at NASA's Kennedy space center in Florida, rather than previous basic log in, said:" Dorrian. "We are looking for money and former investment and infrastructure is ready to use."
This small shuttle machine task, by the United States air force and NASA X - 37 of the original design of the basis, still roughly classification. Around the secret plan, the plan is by the air force rapid ability office is responsible for the supervision, has attracted the attention of international society, from countries such as China guess a more positive intention.
"The personage inside course of study says, the spaceship is probably a precursors, able to throw bombs or disable enemy satellite orbit around the earth weapons," China's state-run xinhua news agency to write in 6 months, OTV - 2 finished its mission.
Since the 2010 years since the first flight, U.S. officials to keep the world mission OTV a series of non evil "test". For example, mission in October this year will focus on the ability of the test vehicle, and cost efficiency of the plane, the air force spokesman major Tracy library told SPACE.com, the first reported new mission
"X - and b is one of the most promising aspects of it enables us to check the effective load system or technical environment, it will carry out its task and check them, and we put them back to earth, library said." "Return to experiment, through the X - 37 b OTV can detailed inspection and significantly better learning, can achieve more than individual through the remote telemetry."
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