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AN UNMANNED space plane has been orbiting the Earth for almost a year and the public still has not been told exactly what it is doing up there.

Theories about what the US military’s X-37B is doing range from being a space bomber to a drone ship used to monitor Chinese satellites.

Iran believes it is a space warplane carrying weapons — a claim dismissed by the air force.

Another theory is it is sweeping up broken American satellites to bring them home to be fixed.

It has flown three previous secret missions to date and the air force has been slightly more forthcoming about this one.

For the first time, air force officials released details of some of the prototype equipment on board.

One is a new “thruster system” — an experimental plasma-propulsion space engine — that could be used to manoeuvre satellites in orbit.

The X-37B taxis on the flight line.Source:Supplied

Captain Chris Hoyler said the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft — 8.8m long with a 4.5m wingspan — has room inside for an array of electronic equipment.

“[We] are investigating an experimental propulsion system on the X-37B on Mission 4,” he said.


The Captain added the latest flight was looking at the “technical parameters for an affordable, reusable space vehicle.

“The air force Rapid Capabilities Office will also host a number of advance materials on-board the X-37B for NASA to study the durability of various materials in the space environment.”

air force spokeswoman Capt. Annmarie Annicelli kept up the secrecy around the mission.

“I can confirm the fourth OTV mission is approaching one year on orbit,” she toldSpace.com

According to X-37B manufacturer Boeing, the space plane operates in low-earth orbit, between 177km and 800km above earth.

By comparison, the International Space Station orbits at about 350km.

It is a quarter of the size of NASA’s retired space shuttles and is launched in the same way, vertically on a rocket, before landing like a conventional aeroplane.

The space plane is too small to carry people on-board but its cargo bay is just large enough to carry a small satellite.


Secret US military space plane remains mystery

 

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Mkuu kama tumefikia hapa its means the globalists tayar wame accomplish space weaponizations pamoja na kila kitu..to me its perfect powerful opportiunity to eatablish NWO.

The militarisation of space is the placement and development of weaponry and military technology in outer space. The early exploration of space in the mid-20th century had, in part, a military motivation, as the United States and the Soviet Union used it as an opportunity to demonstrate ballistic missile technology and other technologies having the potential for military application. Outer space has since been used as an operating location for military spacecraft such as imaging and communications satellites, and some ballistic missiles pass through outer space during their flight. As yet, however, weapons have not been stationed in space, with the exception of the Almaz space station and small handguns carried by Russian cosmonauts (for post-landing, pre-recovery use).

SPACE WEAPONS
Space weapons are weapons used in space warfare. They include weapons that can attack space systems in orbit (i.e. anti-satellite weapons), attack targets on the earth from space or disable missiles travelling through space. In the course of the militarization of space, such weapons were developed mainly by the contesting superpowers during the Cold War, and some remain under development today. Space weapons are also a central theme in military science fiction and sci-fi video games.Only a few incidents of space warfare have occurred in world history, and all were training missions, as opposed to actions against real opposing forces. In the mid-1980s a USAF pilot in an F-15 successfully shot down the P78-1, a communications satellite in a 345-mile (555 km) orbit.

In 2007 the People's Republic of China used a missile system to destroy one of its obsolete satellites (see 2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test), and in 2008 the United States similarly destroyed its malfunctioning satellite USA 193. To date, there have been no human casualties resulting from conflict in space, nor has any ground target been successfully neutralised from orbit.
Space warfare is combat that takes place in outer space, i.e. outside the atmosphere. Technically, as a distinct classification[citation needed], it refers to battles where the targets themselves are in space. Space warfare therefore includes ground-to-space warfare, such as attacking satellites from the Earth, as well as space-to-space warfare, such as satellites attacking satellites.
wakati wenzentu wakijadili namna ya kuitawala dunia sisi tunabishana uhaba wa sukari wakati mda wowote tunauwawa popote tulipo tz. USA noma