American orbital spaceplane broke record (2 photos + video)
Recently ended the fourth mission is a suborbital aircraft reusable X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-4 belonging to the US air force. New orbital record drone aircraft made up of 718 days, and total flight equipment is now 2085 days. The plane was launched on 20 may 2015 and returned to earth on 7 may 2017, landing at the Space center Kennedy.Kennedy was successful.
According to the official version, the drone used by the military for monitoring the level of danger of flying into space, helps in practice to take into account the shortcomings in the development of reusable spacecraft and to improve them, and conduct various orbital experiments. However, due to the semi-secret status of the mission, each new publication of the completion of the next flight provokes a lot of conspiracy theories true purpose of the military. Experts agree that the United States air force gathers intelligence data in areas of the middle East conflict. In addition, it has been suggested that the OTV-4, created as part of a secret project X-37 may be a prototype of a space interceptor, whose goal, beyond gathering of intelligence, will be the destruction of unwanted satellites.
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Anyway, to overestimate progress in the development of space technology that can be used in a purely scientific point difficult.
Source: newatlas.com
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