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Air Force X-37B Spaceplane Launches on May 20 with Military, NASA and LightSail Payloads: Watch Live
Fourth flight of the U.S. Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is set for blastoff on May 20, 2015 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Photo: Boeing
All systems are currently “GO” for the fourth launch of the US Air Force’s secretive unmanned, X-37B military space plane this Wednesday, May 20, on a flight combining both US national security experimental payloads as well as civilian science experiments sponsored by NASA, US Universities, commercial companies, and the solar sailing LightSail from the Planetary Society.
LIghtSail marks the first controlled, Earth orbit solar sail flight according to The Planetary Society. It will launch as a separate cubesat experiment. NASA also has an advanced materials science experiment flying aboard the robotically controlled X-37B. (…)
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Post tags: Atlas V rocket, Boeing, cape canaveral, LightSail mission, materials science, mini shuttle, NASA, OTV, OTV-4, SLC-41, spaceplane, The Planetary Society, ULA, USAF, USAF Rapid Capabilities Office, X-37B
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