OTV-5
Sign in to saveAlso known as USA-277, X-37B OTV-5, Orbital Test Vehicle 5
USA-277, also referred to as Orbital Test Vehicle 5 (OTV-5), is the third flight of the second Boeing X-37B, an American unmanned vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane. It was launched to low Earth orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from LC-39A on September 7, 2017. Its mission designation is part of the USA series.
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Duration
- 1122831
- Image
- X37B OTV-5 Landed (cropped).jpg
- Significant event
- landing
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- space launch vehicle
- Falcon 9
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2017-09-07
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- Commons category
- X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle 5
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- launch contractor
- SpaceX
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 2019-10-27
- location of landing
- Launch and Landing Facility
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- Mission
- Satellite Deployments
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- References
USA-277, also referred to as Orbital Test Vehicle 5 (OTV-5), is the third flight of the second Boeing X-37B, an American unmanned vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane. It was launched to low Earth orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from LC-39A on September 7, 2017. Its mission designation is part of the USA series.
The spaceplane was operated by Air Force Space Command, which considers the mission classified and as such has not revealed the objectives. However, the Air Force did reveal that among the onboard payloads was an experimental oscillating heat pipe. Additionally, it was revealed after OTV-5 landed that it had deployed three cubesats in orbit.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “OTV-5” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.