Tag: x-37b
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#MorningMonarchy: October 18, 2016
Unclassified clouds, Putlocker down and devastating space events + this day in history w/home satellites and our song of the day by Alien Knife Fight on your Morning Monarchy for October 18, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: May 24, 2016
Invisibility cloaks, Olympic meteors and BangFit + this day in history w/the first Eurovision contest and our song of the day by Adia Victoria on your Morning Monarchy for May 24, 2016.
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#X37B Still Largely Unexplained
X-37B Still Largely Unexplained: “The fourth mission of the X-37B robot spaceplane is well underway. We know much of what is happening with the flight. There’s a test of a Hall Effect thruster for the US Air Force and a set of materials samples provided by NASA. Beyond this, little else is known. On previous…
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Top Secret Unmanned US Space Plane Returns After ‘Unspecified Experiments’
from abc.net.au: A top secret US military space plane has landed in California after almost two years in orbit above Earth. The unmanned X-37B, which is also known as the orbital test vehicle, was launched in December 2012 by the US Air Force. It was the space plane’s third known and longest mission. The Air…
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Could X-37B Intercept North Korea Satellite?
John Clover in a Quora blog entry asks question many wonder, “Could X-37B Intercept North Koream Satellite?” Top Secret X-37B spy plane (picture, left) could easily shift to a polar orbit so answer seems “yes” but risk-benefit ratio makes maneuver seem unproductive? Clover writes, “there is almost no reason to do this though. First, there…
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US Military’s Next X-37B Space Plane Launch Faces New Delay
The next launch of the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane, a robotic spacecraft used to fly classified payloads into Earth orbit, has been delayed until next month pending final approvals, SPACE.com has learned.
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#DataDump: Cops, Robots, Minerals and More
Uncle Sam Wants You! to Combat Online Piracy* DefCon: 20 Years of Hackers, Hijinks and Snooping Feds* How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down* Military Judge Orders Obama Admin to Turn over Proof that WikiLeaks Documents Damaged National Security* ‘Big Brother’? No, It’s Parents: Software Helps Parents Monitor Their Children Online*…
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X-37B Lands June 16 At Vandenberg After 15 Months In Space
What goes up must come down, but X-37B OTV demonstrates none too quickly, considering March 5, 2011 launch. The remotely flown mini-Space Shuttle landed at Vandenberg AFB today in wee hours after more than one year in orbit. It does stand to reason, whether US military wanted to be on the ground, if something untoward…
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X-37B: Only the Public Face of a Private Spying Mission?
Mysterious X-37B space plane survives 1st year in orbit // Ted Thornhill asks questions in Veterans Today article (VT), “This [X-37B] is the public face? Is this video one of the private “faces,” one of how many?”
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Covert US-China Space Wars: 2012 and Beyond
Readers must challenge imaginations to resist media attempts to set terms of discussion! BBC caused a recent flap with article, “X-37B spaceplane ‘spying on China’,” observing X-37B and Tiangong 1 are in very similar orbits!
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x-47b av-2 test flight is a success
Northrup Grumman’s Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstration program took a step forward with a successful test flight on Nov. 22 of the air vehicle 2 (AV-2). The AV-2 took off from Edwards AFB, CA and landed a half hour later, concluding an entirely pre-determined flight. “The X-47B is a computer-controlled unmanned aircraft system that…
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3/31 defcon: morpheus, auroras, smartbombs & omg’s!
secret space plane can’t hide from amateur sleuths* secret x-37b space plane caught on video by skywatchers* nasa tracking ‘a large object approaching the sun’* video: will ‘morpheus’ be the first vehicle on the moon since apollo?* video: stunningly beautiful time-lapse footage of aurora* nsa said to focus its decrypting skills on nasdaq cyber attack*…
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X-37B: USAF Project, NRO Research
You can follow robo-shuttle, or if you’re Russia and China, a space plane and secret weapon from humble beginnings under NASA X-33 project to present adoption by United States Air Force (USAF).
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Second US ‘secret space warplane’ x-37b to launch tomorrow
The US Air Force is set to launch its second X-37B miniature unmanned spaceplane – the type famously dubbed a “secret space warplane” by the Iranian government – on Friday.
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X-37B: What’s Behind Closed Payload Doors?
What kind of payload does the unmanned X-37B carry? There’s been much controversy, including an allegation the mini-shuttle is designed to attack satellites!