Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., USA - December 11, 2012 - Boeing (NYSE: BA) today successfully returned an unmanned U.S. Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle to orbit, continuing to demonstrate how the system provides responsive, reusable access to space. Affordable, responsive vehicle delivers unprecedented capability to US Air Force.
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Boeing successfully returned an unmanned U.S. Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle to orbit.
Building upon its inaugural mission from April to December 2010, this second flight will demonstrate that the vehicle is capable of multiple missions and can provide affordable access to space.
A second vehicle, OTV-2, broke records in June 2012 when it completed a 469-day mission.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., USA. December 11, 2012.
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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., USA - December 11, 2012
Boeing (NYSE: BA) today successfully returned an unmanned U.S. Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle to orbit, continuing to demonstrate how the system provides responsive, reusable access to space.
An Atlas V rocket launched OTV-1, the first of two vehicles in the program, into a low Earth orbit at 1:03 p.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 41.
The X-37B, which combines the best of aircraft and spacecraft design in an unmanned test platform, is testing reusable vehicle technologies dealing with space experimentation, risk reduction and concept-of-operations development.
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Paul Rusnock, vice president of Boeing Government Space Systems.
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"The second mission for OTV-1 demonstrates the vehicle is capable of multiple missions and affordable access to space," said Paul Rusnock, vice president of Boeing Government Space Systems.
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Boeing Moving to New Complex in Huntsville.
Boeing is moving to a new office complex near the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville as the company consolidates several of its locations in the area.
The recently signed development agreement will result in 363,000 square feet of office space in a Boeing-named, three-building complex.
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OTV-1 was first launched in April 2010 and returned to Earth that December. It is the United States' first unmanned vehicle to return from space and land on its own.
The space shuttle had been the only space vehicle capable of landing on a runway.
A second vehicle, OTV-2, set a record for a reusable space vehicle in June of this year when it completed a 469-day mission.
Previously, Space Shuttle Discovery held that record with an accumulated total of 365 days in orbit.
Boeing's commitment to space-based unmanned vehicle technology spans a decade and includes support to the Air Force Research Lab's X-40 program, NASA's X-37 program, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's X-37 Approach, Landing and Test Vehicle program.
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Boeing Moving to New Complex in Huntsville.
Boeing is moving to a new office complex near the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville as the company consolidates several of its locations in the area.
The recently signed development agreement will result in 363,000 square feet of office space in a Boeing-named, three-building complex.
Courtesy of Boeing / Artist's rendering courtesy of Corporate Office Properties Trust |
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