OTV-2
Sign in to saveAlso known as USA-226, X-37B OTV-2, Orbital Test Vehicle 2
OTV-2 (also known as USA-226) was the first flight of the second Boeing X-37B, an American unmanned robotic vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane. It was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on 5 March 2011, and landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base on 16 June 2012. It operated in low Earth orbit. Its USA-226 mission designation is part of the USA series.
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Follows
- OTV-1
- Duration
- 674762
- Image
- OTV-2 X-37B.jpg
- Significant event
- landing
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- Commons category
- X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle 2
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2011-03-05
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41
- launch contractor
- United Launch Alliance
- location of landing
- Vandenberg Space Force Base
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 2012-06-16
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
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- Launch
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- Altitude and [[ground track]] resonance history
- Landing
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OTV-2 (also known as USA-226) was the first flight of the second Boeing X-37B, an American unmanned robotic vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane. It was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on 5 March 2011, and landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base on 16 June 2012. It operated in low Earth orbit. Its USA-226 mission 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 payload for the first flight. The Air Force 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."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “OTV-2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.