SPACECRAFT INFO

The Boeing X-37, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), is a reusable robotic spacecraft. It is boosted into space by a launch vehicle, then re-enters Earth's atmosphere and lands as a spaceplane. The X-37 is operated by the United States Space Force for orbital spaceflight missions intended to demonstrate reusable space technologies. It is a 120-percent-scaled derivative of the earlier Boeing X-40. The X-37 began as a NASA project in 1999, before being transferred to the United States Department of Defense in 2004. Until 2019, the program was managed by Air Force Space Command.

MANUFACTURER INFO

Boeing

SPACECRAFT SPECIFICATIONS

CREW

null

(diameter)

4.55 m

(height)

8.92

HUMAN RATED

PAYLOAD

227

FIRST FLIGHT

2010-04-22

FLIGHT LIFE

Multiple years in orbit