The first photo of the American secret space in orbit

One of the photovoltaic batteries of the aircraft can be clearly seen from the left of the photo, while the cargo compartment is opened on the top. X-37B has been operating in orbit for more than a year after launching in Saturday mission on December 28, 2023 on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, according to Space.

Although the photo shared by the US space forces contains not much details about the vehicle as well as what it is testing, viewers can still see the scene of the background is far away, showing the X-37B high flying high. How much in the latest mission. When it is about to launch to perform the current task, the US space forces reveals that the flight will include operating the reusable space aircraft in the new orbit, the future monitoring technology experiment in space. And find out the effects of radiation on materials provided by NASA.

The previous tasks of the X-37B fly in the Earth’s low orbit, but this photo reveals that the space aircraft is operating much further. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy missile can launch goods into the orbit in the same direction of the Earth’s surface 35,000 km from the surface. X-37B recently attracted attention when the US and Boeing space forces, the vehicle manufacturing company, revealed it would test the aerodynamic brake use using friction created by the Earth’s atmosphere to change Effective and safe orbit with minimum fuel.

According to the accompanying notice of the US space force, the picture was taken while the X-37B was conducting the experiment. It is unclear whether those experiments are related to aerodynamic brake operation.

While the US space force kept information about the operations of space aircraft in long-term missions, X-37B is said to act as a new cosmic technology testing platform. It also carries equipment to test solar energy from the universe, heat protection system and automatic flying ability. This is the most advanced book.

X-37B has set a record of 908 days in the 6th mission, ending when landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on November 12, 2022. It is unclear when the X-37B will return to the Earth and end the 7th flight. China is also testing a separate reuse space, launching in the third task just two weeks before the recent launch. Best of X-37B.