Re:Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days ...
by ChuckMcM on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @10:41AM
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Good question, perhaps giving it an actual name would reveal too much. General consensus seems to think its a 'deploy on demand' reconnaissance transport (basically a bunch of signal or optical gear in the payload that it can point at various places and then return). That would make it something like an MQ-37 or RQ-37.
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Re:Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days ...
by 7952 on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @05:06PM
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The return ability also lets you collect data and store it on board for recovery later. Any sensor that can see through clouds could generate a colossal amount of data and there is never enough bandwidth!