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Pure speculation but I think the X37-B spacecraft is probably some sort of satellite jammer / destroyer and possibly a refuel / service ship.
by speeq 8y ago
Pure speculation but I think the X37-B spacecraft is probably some sort of satellite jammer / destroyer and possibly a refuel / service ship.
- azernik 8y agoProbably not. Its design features are: 1. Long-duration flight (low-single-digit years). 2. In very small numbers (at most one in orbit at a time). 3. Recoverability of payload. 4. Very high delta-V (i.e. can shift orbits a lot, and has been observed doing so in big jumps during deployments). The most likely guess is a testbed for military satellite subsystems; put a camera or a radar on there, and you can get a feel for its performance at different altitudes/angles, and also bring the prototypes back down to do a teardown after the fact.