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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: 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...

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  • (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.