CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. - A Boeing-built unmanned orbital vehicle called X-37B was successfully launched Thursday aboard an Atlas V rocket into low-earth orbit. The Orbital Test Vehicle's mission is classified. The X-37B is designed to return from space and land on its own. The vehicle will be used to demonstrate a reliable, reusable unmanned space test platform for the Air Force. The Atlas V is powered by the RD AMROSS RD-180 booster engine and a Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne RL10 upper-stage engine. (Sources: Boeing, PRNewswire, 04/22/10) Gulf Coast note: Unmanned aerial systems are built in part in Moss Point, Miss; Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne has an operation at Stennis Space Center, Miss.
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Friday, April 23, 2010
Space UAV launched
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. - A Boeing-built unmanned orbital vehicle called X-37B was successfully launched Thursday aboard an Atlas V rocket into low-earth orbit. The Orbital Test Vehicle's mission is classified. The X-37B is designed to return from space and land on its own. The vehicle will be used to demonstrate a reliable, reusable unmanned space test platform for the Air Force. The Atlas V is powered by the RD AMROSS RD-180 booster engine and a Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne RL10 upper-stage engine. (Sources: Boeing, PRNewswire, 04/22/10) Gulf Coast note: Unmanned aerial systems are built in part in Moss Point, Miss; Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne has an operation at Stennis Space Center, Miss.
