Friday, 11 October 2024

Pentagon presents spaceship X-37B

 


"This first-of-its-kind X-37B maneuver is an incredibly

important milestone. "

The US Space Force announced on Thursday that after

more than nine months of flying in an unusual, high-

ly

elongated orbit, the US military X-37B space plane will soon

begin lowering its wings into the Earth's atmosphere to lower

altitude, and then return to Earth to land on the run-

way.

The air braking maneuvers will use a series of passes

through the uppermost limits of the atmosphere to

gradually reduce the speed with aerodynamic drag and at

the same time consume a minimum amount of fuel. In

orbital mechanics, this decrease in velocity will bring the

apogee, or highest point, of the X-37Borbit closer to

Earth.

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