After the longest orbital flight . The "Secret" plane arrives in Florida

 

 By Jaiden Hawk                 October 29, 2019

The U.S. Air Force announced that the Secret X-37B space plane landed in Florida on Sunday, marking the longest orbital flight in more than two years, ending the latest test mission for a range of military technologies.

The Air Force said the X-37B, manufactured by Boeing and Unmanned, arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 3:51 AEST, after spending 780 days orbiting the Earth on the fifth Air Force mission in the test vehicle program. Orbital.

The space plane, the size of a minibus that shares many design qualities with NASA's space shuttle, was sent into orbit in 2017 aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, to begin a mission led by the U.S. Air Force's Rapid Capability Bureau, based in Washington. to conduct various secret technological experiments in the space environment for a long time.

"The X-37B continues to demonstrate the importance of reusable space aircraft," new Air Force Secretary Babra Barrett said in a statement. Every successful mission leads to the development of our nation's space capabilities."

The previous X-37B mission lasted 718 days and landed in 2017, and the Air Force said that with the landing of the space plane, Sunday, the total number of days of the entire program was 2,865.