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Robot Spaceplane To Launch In 2008

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the I-still-want-my-hover-car dept.

FleaPlus writes "The US Air Force has announced that it is developing an unmanned reusable spaceplane, the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. The first launch is in 2008 on an Atlas V rocket. The X-37B will be one-fourth the size of the Space Shuttle and serve as a testbed for technologies for future reusable spacecraft. Its predecessor, the X-37, was drop-tested from the Scaled Composites White Knight mothership earlier this year."

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  1. Re:i cant beleive no one has asked.. by donaldm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Linux will be used for long duration (manned and unmanned) missions such as Mars and the outer planets. The other OS will be MS Windows for short term unmanned suicide missions such as crashing into asteroids and comets.

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    There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
  2. Re:Buran -- what's in a name? by Andy+Gardner · · Score: 3, Funny
    At the risk of being one of those grammer fascists--

    Oh dear...