Sunday, May 23, 2010

Surveillance Suspected as Spacecraft’s Main Role

Surveillance Suspected as Spacecraft’s Main Role

The USAF's X37B launching from Florida filmed from 60 miles away in Orlando,FL.


United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will launch the U.S. military's X-37B, a prototype space plane also called the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV). The Atlas V will fly in the 501 vehicle configuration with a five-meter fairing, no solid rocket boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper stage. This will be the 21st Atlas V launch in program history.


Atlas V Launch with the experimental Air Force spaceplane, X-37B. This lifted off around sunset on April 22, 2010 from Complex 41 in Cape Canaveral, FL. Filmed from the Complex 39 Press Site in Kennedy Space Center.