DARPA's X-37B Earth bound

DARPA's X-37B Earth bound

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he U.S. military's mysterious X-37B space plane will complete its maiden voyage with a return to Earth as early as Friday (Dec. 3), Air Force officials said today.

Personnel at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California are preparing for the return of the unmanned X-37B space plane, which has been aloft on its classified debut spaceflight since April, officials with the Air Force Space Command said in a statement released today (Nov. 30).

While the exact landing date and time will depend on technical and weather considerations, it is expected to occur between F

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Just wanted to bring this back to all of your attention.
Still there still secret and we? Still non the wiser?

So what's your views?
I believe that this could be a big story come friday for all the wrong reasons.
Autopilot to land at a speed of 200mph and if all fails it will ditch into pacific.

In my opinion that's not exactly what I'm worried about. I'm more worried about where its been and what it has and also the reasons why?
We all seemed to have lost interest but key to the abyss springs to mind.

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the X-37B is not secret. It's a "cheap" entertainment for the Tax Payers!? Its Mysterious..

It's a capability test for the platform.

Depending on what if anything went wrong, they'll make mods to the next test shot.

And they likely were carrying some NRO/NGIA toys as a load.

Maybe next pass will test the "adversarial maintenance" function.

No one else really interested in this? Or are you all beaten?
You can't find anything out at all?
Maybe I should ask wikileaks?

A challenge to ATS would be to find as much info as possible but could prove impossible. Nothing new from what we already know.

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Entertainment sure...

But cheap?! I guess anything is cheaper than the B-2...

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I'm curious OP, what do you think might be contained in the X-37B that wasn't there before?

Just one question... when was this launched?

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April 22 of this year.