X-37B empty aircraft refresh the longest record of the rail

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] According to the US "Air Force Magazine" website reported on the 10th, an X-37B aircraft affiliated to the American Space Army flying in space for more than 780 days in space, which has refreshed the longest rail record.

The X-37B empty aircraft prepared for launch. (American Space Army website)

It is reported that the X-37B was operated by the 9th Delta force of the United States Space Army. The Pentagon refused to disclose any information about the machine, including how many X-37B of the X-37B and the secret project. However, X-37B's contractor and American Boeing announced on social media that it refreshed the longest record on the 8th local time.

According to the US "Space" website, the overall design of the X-37B is similar to the currently retired aerospace aircraft, but the size is smaller. The flexible track of any high range has the ability to fully enter the atmosphere and landing ability. Boeing calls it "one of the latest and most advanced spacecraft in the world."

The US Space Army said that X-37B is a "test platform" and is mainly used to verify repeated spacecraft technology and confidential space projects. But the outside world noticed that X-37B continued to fly longer and longer. When the first launch in 2010, the X-37B stayed in space for 224 days, and in the fifth mission launched in September 2017, it set a record of 780 days in a row. It was not until October 2019 that it returned to re-return Earth.

X-37B, who is still staying in space today on May 17, 2020, from Kanavir, which was lifted off. As of July 7 this year, it had stayed for 780 days on the orbit, and "every day that stayed after that was constantly refreshing the record." The outside world has always questioned that X-37B's ultra-long-track test may have military purposes, including the spacecraft or sensitive military goals that spy on other countries. In the latest launch mission, X-37B carried multiple confidential loads, but only two of them were disclosed: the US Air Force's small satellites and the photovoltaic radio frequency antenna module of the US Navy, which was used to convert solar energy into microwaves and send them to send Back to Earth. (Ma Jun)

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