Directly coming out of Boeing Phantom Works the X-37B Space Plane the grand child of the Dyna-Soar Project in 1963
Some Details of Secretive X-37B Space Plane Revealed
By Leonard David
SPACE.com’s Space Insider Columnist
posted: 18 April 2010
05:27 am ET
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The X-37B orbital space plane, essentially a mini-shuttle, will be placed into Earth orbit and loiter in space for an unspecified period of time. It will then reenter for an auto-pilot landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, or at neighboring Edwards Air Force Base as back-up.
Once launched, the X-37B is designed for space missions of up to 270 days, Blair advised, if everything goes as planned. The space plane was designed for low earth orbits, ranging from 110 to 500 nautical miles, she told SPACE.com
Possession of such a capability, Handberg said, would allow the U.S. to, in a sense, threaten other states by our possession of a rapid response capabilities that can — through payload swap out — go from peaceful reconnaissance to direct attack on other states' spacecraft.
From memory the Chinese had succeed first in targeting successfully an orbital satellite few years ago and about a year later the US succeed it too. As for Russia the only evocative similar matter would be the Copenhagen sky luminous show on the Eve of the Climate Summit.
So it seems that the Achille Heel of Spatial Military Control for US is China.
How are they responding up to now, well we have our responses via Korea Region.
As for all other countries, maybe Russia its game over, difficult to target a spatial plane at Mach 25.
That is why the next couple of weeks will tell us much with what kind of world we going to be bond with.
Peace for all
Snowy