X-37B Spacecraft: “It’s Still Up There”
December 1st, 2011Via: MSNBC:
The secretive X-37B robotic space plane is about to set its own space-endurance record on a hush-hush project operated by the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office.
The craft, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle-2, was boosted into Earth orbit atop an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 5. On Wednesday, the X-37B spacecraft will mark its 270th day of flight — a lifetime in space that was heralded in the past as the vehicle’s upper limit for spaceflight by project officials.
“It’s still up there,” U.S. Air Force Maj. Tracy Bunko of the Air Force Press Desk at the Pentagon, told Space.com, noting that project officials planned for a 9- month-plus mission, “so we’re close to that now.”
The X-37B’s staying power is made feasible by its deployable solar array power system, unfurled from the vehicle’s cargo bay.
That’s wonderful. They’ve mastered the concept of removing the M from ICBM, and can now leave it in orbit, and weapon deliverable within what? 5 minutes from “launch” (drop) to impact?
Well, I guess they can leave the B part off too. Who needs a nuke, when you have gravity? “hypervelocity rod bundle” anyone? Tactical nukes without the radiation. That makes is safer for those controlling the craft to occupy their new conquest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment#Project_Thor
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-06/rods-god
I wish I was only worrying about conspiracies. It’s the gov’t who dreams up these ideas.
well at the very least its nice to think of nasa as an honest organization now, no more of this “civilian” space agency anti-nazi nonsense. i suppose nobody could do anything about it now anyway, and thats kinda the point of disclosure this late in the game.
Yep, I’m pretty sure that is the point of disclosure this late in the game. Just a friendly reminder to everyone that anyplace in the world is a potential target in five minutes.
On the other hand it may still be up there because the electronics got fried or a problem with the propulsion system and they can’t finish the mission. We may never know.
It does make me wonder about certain explosions in Iran. I suppose the beauty of war now is that you can never say for sure if something is sabotage, a false flag attack, a fake false flag attack, etc…