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U.S. Air Force shoots X-37-B orbiter into space

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Cape Canaveral ( USA), 06.03.2011. aboard an Atlas V rocket lifted the X-37B orbiter on Saturday from Cape Canaveral Spaceport (Florida, U.S.) from. It is a secret mini-spacecraft, which thus completed its second test flight. The first flight took place in December 2010. Since then, the landing system was enhanced to end up in a fairly strong wind. The orbiter is 9.80 meters long, has a wingspan of 4.5 meters and weighs under five tons. He can circle the earth at a low orbit, and how to land the space shuttle with its own suspension. Secret is to take over the tasks to the ship for the military is. Russia therefore, threw before the United States to try to militarize space. image (information): X-37 is the designation of an experimental space plane, which was originally developed on behalf of NASA by a subsidiary of Boeing . It is an unmanned, reusable space vehicle, the structure is derived from the X-40 glider A.

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