{"id":150135,"date":"2022-11-14T23:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T05:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-us-space-forces-secretive-x-37b-space-plane-10-surprising-facts"},"modified":"2022-11-14T23:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T05:22:21","slug":"the-us-space-forces-secretive-x-37b-space-plane-10-surprising-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-us-space-forces-secretive-x-37b-space-plane-10-surprising-facts","title":{"rendered":"The US Space Force\u2019s secretive X-37B space plane: 10 surprising facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-us-space-forces-secretive-x-37b-space-plane-10-surprising-facts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Space Force has a mini-fleet of two robotic X-37B space planes, which have been flying secret missions since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent mission, called OTV-6, launched in May 2020 and is ongoing. As that name suggests, it\u2019s the sixth flight for the robotic X-37B, which is also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV). The other five OTV missions launched in April 2010, March 2011, December 2012, May 2015 and September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve assembled 10 surprising facts about the military space plane for you. Just click the arrows to launch to the next page and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>US military\u2019s X-37B space plane lands, ending record-breaking mystery mission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-force-x-37b-space-plane-otv-6-mission-ends\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-force-x-37b-space-plane-otv-6-mission-ends<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Learn all about the U.S. Space Force\u2019s robotic X-37B space plane, which has flown six mystery missions to date.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-us-space-forces-secretive-x-37b-space-plane-10-surprising-facts\">Continue reading \u201cThe US Space Force\u2019s secretive X-37B space plane: 10 surprising facts\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Space Force has a mini-fleet of two robotic X-37B space planes, which have been flying secret missions since 2010. The most recent mission, called OTV-6, launched in May 2020 and is ongoing. As that name suggests, it\u2019s the sixth flight for the robotic X-37B, which is also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}