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Not sure if anyone has noticed, but these things seem to be setting 2+ year records every few months. So ... how many are up there?
by killjoywashere 7y ago
Not sure if anyone has noticed, but these things seem to be setting 2+ year records every few months. So ... how many are up there?
- NortySpock 7y agoTwo have been manufactured for flight, one for aerodynamics testing. I imagine they fly one and perform refurbishment and re-equip the second one while the first is flying. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37
- dtparr 7y agoCan you point to the last time one landed? May 2017 is what I'm tracking, so a few months before this one launched. There are 2 known X37Bs, but I don't think they've been up at the same time.
- pardavis 7y ago"There have been five X-37 orbital missions. The spaceplane's first mission, USA-212, was launched in April 2010 and returned to Earth in December 2010. A second X-37 was launched on mission USA-226 in March 2011 and returned in June 2012. The third mission was USA-240, which launched in December 2012 and landed in October 2014. The fourth mission, USA-261, launched in May 2015 and landed in May 2017. The fifth and latest X-37 mission, USA-277, was launched on 7 September 2017, and broke the record for the longest X-37 mission, after 718 days in orbit, on 27 August 2019, finally landing on 27 October 2019 after 780 days in orbit." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37