Remember theX-37B , that super - secret unmanned U.S. military space bird replacement no one knows anything about ? Bad tidings , chickenhawks — it ’s most potential just a nonlethal high - flyin ’ undercover agent plane . eldritch news program ? Amateur astronomers completely know where it is right now .
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It ’s here : or so anywhere between 40 degrees north and 40 degrees south line of latitude at an altitude of about 255 miles , enjoin Ted Molczan , an recreational sky watching aficionado from Toronto , in aninterview with the New York Times . It circle the major planet with a brisk 90 - minute orbit .
What country fall within that range , you ask ? Why , none other that troublemakers Iraq , Iran , Afghanistan , Pakistan and even North Korea . But there wo n’t be any bombs over Baghdad from this thing , at least not straight off .
You see , while this craft is certainly all military , the behavior this bird exudes is gross reconnaissance . Every four days , for case , the X-37B kick the bucket over the same region of world , which Molczan says is exactly what U.S. imaging reconnaissance mission satellite have been known to do . The military has also vehemently deny any weaponization of the project on countless occasions , so there ’s that too , if you ’re one to believe everything the military allege at face value .
Still , it could be a feint , correct ? The rumored death ray that I just made up just now could be deploy afterward , during the craftsmanship ’s long - bruit nine - month stay in orbit ( thanks to solar panels ) . We ’ll be watch !
Cool X-37B fact : The upper stage of the Atlas rocket that blast this bird into place last month was sent into a secret cranial orbit around the sun ! Harvard astronomer Jonathan McDowell pronounce this is the first time in U.S. space history that this kind of secret cranial orbit had occurred . [ New York Times ]
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