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Air Force Launches X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle

Pat Host

Wednesday, May 20th, 2015

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Air Force Launches X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle

In a testing procedure, the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle taxis on the flightline March 30, 2010, at the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Fla. Photo: Air Force.

The Air Force and United Launch Alliance (ULA) on Wednesday successfully launched the service’s secretive, unmanned space plane called the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) at 11:05 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., according to a ULA statement.This is the fourth mission for the X-37B, a 29 feet long shuttle-like spacecraft designed to operate in low-earth orbit (LEO) at a nominal speed of about 17,500 miles per hour. In its last mission, the X-37B flew for nearly…

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