[Launch Alert] X-37B Lands at Vandenberg

[Launch Alert]

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                              Brian Webb
                     Ventura County, California
                  launch-alert-editor at earthlink.net
                    http://www.spacearchive.info
		       
                                2010 December 3 (Friday) 04:51 PDT
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         X-37B ORBITAL TEST VEHICLE LANDS AT VANDENBERG AFB
                    Vandenberg AFB News Release
                           2010 December 3

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - The U.S. Air Force's first
unmanned re-entry spacecraft landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at
1:16 a.m. PST today.

The X-37B, named Orbital Test Vehicle 1 (OTV-1), conducted on-orbit
experiments for more than 220 days during its maiden voyage.  It fired
its orbital maneuver engine in low-earth orbit to perform an
autonomous reentry before landing.

The X-37B is the newest and most advanced re-entry spacecraft. Managed
by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (AFRCO), the X-37B program
performs risk reduction, experimentation and concept of operations
development for reusable space vehicle technologies.

"Today's landing culminates a successful mission based on close
teamwork between the 30th Space Wing, Boeing and the Air Force Rapid
Capabilities Office," said Lt Col Troy Giese, X-37B program manager
from the AFRCO. "We are very pleased that the program completed all
the on-orbit objectives for the first mission."

OTV-1's de-orbit and landing mark the transition from the on-orbit
demonstration phase to a refurbishment phase for the program.  

The Air Force is preparing to launch the next X-37B, OTV-2, in Spring
2011 aboard an Atlas V booster.

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