For the first time, we see a picture of the American military space plane that crashed the records while it is in the orbit of the Earth.
During the weekend, the American space force shared a photo taken by the X-37B spacecraft during its last confidential mission.
It is the first common operational image while the space level is in orbit.
The image shows part of the space level, the blue marble of the Earth and the darkness of space.
The American space force wrote on X.
“X-37B has implemented a series of first maneuvers of its kind, which is called Aerobraking, to change its orbit safely using the minimum fuel.”
The space plane is a tropical test platform for different experimentation tasks, some of which are classified.
Its seventh mission, known as OTV-7, was launched on the heavy Spacex Falcon missile in 2023 and included both non-classified and classified experiments.
Over the course of 15 years of work, X-37B has set new time records with every trip.
According to space manufacturer Boeing, X-37B spent 908 days in orbit during its last mission, as it recorded a new tolerant record.
Before the last mission, the space plane was in orbit for 780 days before returning to Earth in October 2019.
The space plane lands on the former spacecraft runway, which is now called the launch and landing facility at the NASA Kennedy Center.
At the exact moment when the space plane lands secret, but the population along the space coast in Florida will know when it returns due to an audio sound when it lands.
