OTV-1
Sign in to saveAlso known as USA-212, X-37B OTV-1, Orbital Test Vehicle 1
USA-212 was the first flight of the Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle 1 (X-37B OTV-1), an American robotic vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing (VTHL) spaceplane. It was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on 22 April 2010, and operated in low Earth orbit. Its designation is part of the USA series.
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Followed by
- OTV-2
- Duration
- 323124
- Image
- Boeing X-37B inside payload fairing before launch.jpg
- Significant event
- landing
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- Commons category
- X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle 1
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2010-04-22
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41
- launch contractor
- United Launch Alliance
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 2010-12-03
- location of landing
- Vandenberg Space Force Base
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
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- Launch
- Mission
- Observations by amateur skywatchers
- Altitude and ground track resonance history
- Landing
- Hypothetical mission components
- See also
- References
USA-212 was the first flight of the Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle 1 (X-37B OTV-1), an American robotic vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing (VTHL) spaceplane. It was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on 22 April 2010, and operated in low Earth orbit. Its designation is part of the USA series.
The spaceplane was operated by Air Force Space Command, which has not revealed the specific identity of the spaceship's payload for the mission. The Air Force has stated only that the spacecraft would "demonstrate various experiments and allow satellite sensors, subsystems, components, and associated technology to be transported into space and back."
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