{"id":12868,"date":"2019-10-29T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T10:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/x-37bs-return-to-cape-canaveral-in-images\/"},"modified":"2019-10-29T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T10:34:10","slug":"x-37bs-return-to-cape-canaveral-in-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/x-37bs-return-to-cape-canaveral-in-images\/","title":{"rendered":"X-37B\u2019s return to Cape Canaveral in images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EV1jIPEj2a0\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force has released an infrared video and additional images from Sunday\u2019s landing of the military\u2019s X-37B spaceplane in Florida after a top secret mission that lasted more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>The unpiloted spaceplane touched down at the Shuttle Landing Facility runway at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center at 3:51 a.m. EDT (0751 GMT) Sunday, the Air Force said.<\/p>\n<p>About one-quarter the length of a space shuttle orbiter, the X-37B spaceplane landed to conclude a 780-day mission that began Sept. 7, 2017, with liftoff on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from launch pad 39A, a few miles from the three-mile-long landing strip at KSC.<\/p>\n<p>Details about the Boeing-built spaceplane\u2019s mission in orbit have not been revealed by the Air Force, beyond statements suggesting the X-37B tested advanced thermal control system technologies for use in future satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details on the landing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41398\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41398\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/191027-F-XB799-0752.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/191027-F-XB799-0752.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/191027-F-XB799-0752-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/191027-F-XB799-0752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/191027-F-XB799-0752-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: U.S. Air Force<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41397\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41397\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41397\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/191027-F-XB799-0751.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/191027-F-XB799-0751.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/191027-F-XB799-0751-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/191027-F-XB799-0751-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/191027-F-XB799-0751-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the X-37B recovery team, wearing hazardous material suits, approached the X-37B spaceplane for safety checks after the vehicle landed Sunday on the Shuttle Landing Facility runway at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: U.S. Air Force<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41438\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41438\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41438\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5865150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5865150.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5865150-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5865150-768x299.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5865150-678x264.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The X-37B after touchdown at the Shuttle Landing Facility. Credit: U.S. Air Force<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41439\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41439\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5865144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5865144.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5865144-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5865144-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5865144-678x453.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The X-37B after touchdown at the Shuttle Landing Facility. Credit: U.S. Air Force<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff The U.S. Air Force has released an infrared video and additional images from Sunday\u2019s landing of the military\u2019s X-37B spaceplane in Florida after a top secret mission that lasted more than two years. The unpiloted spaceplane touched down at the Shuttle Landing Facility runway at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center at 3:51 a.m. EDT (0751 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[670,428,257,2239,2464,2116,311,2333],"class_list":["post-12868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-boeing","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-military-space","tag-orbital-test-vehicle","tag-otv-5","tag-rapid-capabilities-office","tag-reusability","tag-shuttle-landing-facility"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}