Boeing X-37
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The Boeing X-37, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle, is a reusable robotic spacecraft. It is boosted into space by a launch vehicle, re-enters Earth's atmosphere, and lands as a spaceplane. The X-
X-37B with a service module being encapsulated inside a payload fairing ahead of the sixth mission
An artist's rendering of the X-37 spacecraft in 1999
The Scaled Composites White Knight was used to launch the X-37A on glide tests (2007).
X-37B 2 sits on the Shuttle Landing Facility after the OTV-4 mission, with ground crew wearing protective suits.
United States Space Force
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The United States Space Force is the space service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and was established on 20 December 2019. Part of the United States Department of Defense, it is one of the
Boeing X-37
…atmosphere, and lands as a spaceplane. The X-37 is operated by the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, in collaboration with the United States Space Force, for orbital spaceflight missions intended to demonstrate reusable space technologies. It is a 120-percent-scaled derivative of the earlier Boeing X-40…
Concept of a future space interception
Missile warning radar at Pituffik Space Base, Greenland
USSF Falcon Heavy launch from Kennedy Space Center
Launch of Explorer 1, America's first satellite, by the U.S. Army (1958)