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Space Force X-37B Spaceplane Returns From 434-Day Mission Then Flies Again With a Quantum Navigation Experiment
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marzo 8, 2025
Space Force X-37B Spaceplane Returns From 434-Day Mission Then Flies Again With a Quantum Navigation Experiment
The X-37B ended OTV-7 at Vandenberg after 434 days in a highly elliptical orbit. Six months later OTV-8 launched from Kennedy with a quantum inertial sensor and laser communications gear…
Space Force Finds a Dead Cold War-Era Calibration Balloon Satellite Missing for 25 Years
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mayo 2, 2024
Space Force Finds a Dead Cold War-Era Calibration Balloon Satellite Missing for 25 Years
The U.S. Space Force's 18th Space Defense Squadron rediscovered S73-7, a 1974 Infra-Red Calibration Balloon that had been untracked for 25 years.