SpaceX and the US army shook hands!

Ana sayfa / Popular Science

The USA and SpaceX will undertake important work together. Officials announced on Wednesday that the US military’s reusable X-37B space plane will be launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket. The date has been determined. The plane will be launched on December 7. Here are the details…

It will be launched with the US army space plane Falcon Heavy!

The US military and Musk shook hands. The US reusable X-37B aircraft will be launched with SpaceX’s Heavy rocket. In fact, this was a surprising development for everyone. Because the previous six missions of US spacecraft used medium-capacity rockets. Atlas V or Falcon 9 rockets took part in these flights. However, this time the situation is a little different. This next mission, the seventh mission carried out by an X-37B spaceplane, will be the first to fly with a heavy-lift launcher.

The new payload that the next Falcon Heavy rocket will carry was a complete secret before the military announced it. Only the name of the mission was known. The mission, known as USSF-52, did not yield any clues. After the army’s statement, some details became clear. However, the authorities did not share much information with the public because it was a military aspect of the mission. The rocket will take off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The seventh X-37B mission will have a wide range of test and experimental objectives, the Space Force said in a statement. The Pentagon wants everyone to know that the X-37B spaceplane exists. However, military officials remain silent about the details of the vehicle’s missions.

“These tests include operating reusable spacecraft in new orbital regimes, testing future space domain awareness technologies, and investigating radiation effects on NASA-supplied materials,” the Space Force said.

So what can this plane, kept as a secret, do? Shrouded in secrecy, the automated X-37B spaceplane can deploy small satellites. It can host experiments and track other covert targets. The vehicle, which flies without an astronaut inside, produces electricity with a solar energy system. It also guides itself autonomously until landing on the runway at the end of each mission.