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What is the X-37B Doing Up There?

posted by n1 on Friday April 11 2014, @01:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the public-relations-tools-for-secret-missions dept.

Boxzy writes:

The Air Force has had a robotic spacecraft in orbit for a year and a half, speculation predicts a testbed for spying apparatus.

Rumors abound. One of the most popular is the X-37B can sneak up and eavesdrop on other satellites. The idea does have appeal, but skeptics point out the U.S. already has other smaller, harder to track satellites to do just that.

Can anyone think of better ideas for what they could be using this technology for, or is it just a reusable satellite?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday April 11 2014, @02:08AM

    by mhajicek (51) on Friday April 11 2014, @02:08AM (#29801)

    The polka.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday April 11 2014, @02:33AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 11 2014, @02:33AM (#29818) Journal

    What is the X-37B Doing Up There?

    Primarily, orbiting.
    If it wouldn't do this in the first place, my guess that anything else it was designed to do would be superfluous.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by davester666 on Friday April 11 2014, @04:11AM

    by davester666 (155) on Friday April 11 2014, @04:11AM (#29850)

    Falling...always falling...

    • (Score: 2) by threedigits on Friday April 11 2014, @07:51AM

      by threedigits (607) on Friday April 11 2014, @07:51AM (#29905)

      And missing the ground. Again and again.

      It's a great knack.

  • (Score: 2) by rts008 on Friday April 11 2014, @08:00AM

    by rts008 (3001) on Friday April 11 2014, @08:00AM (#29910)

    That's enough justification for someone to blast it out of existence!

    I truly DETEST polkas!

    Time to scrub my brain with a bottle brush and bleach to stop that soundloop inside my head(no thanks to you) of 'Beer barrel Polka', you insensitive clod!

    • (Score: 1) by egcagrac0 on Friday April 11 2014, @09:26AM

      by egcagrac0 (2705) on Friday April 11 2014, @09:26AM (#29930)

      "Who stole the Keeshka?" is the one that annoys me, although "Pennsylvania Polka" is more likely to get stuck in my head. Beer Barrel Polka... not so much.

      Good luck.