X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Launch

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unprecedented aerobraking maneuvers

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The Secretive Spaceplane of the U.S. Space Force Conducts First-of-Its-Kind Maneuvers

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The U.S. Space Force has revealed details about its mysterious spaceplane's seventh mission.

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle will conduct a series of aerobraking maneuvers to change its orbital path around Earth .

The spaceplane will change its orbit to dispose of service module components, dropping them off to burn up.

Machi adds that two other reasons for the revelation could include loosening up some of the agency’s historic and perhaps unnecessary security classification barriers, and/or wanting to prompt China and Russia to also step up communication about space maneuvers. Once the aerobraking has been completed—and perhaps it already has—the spaceplane will return to its secretive objectives..

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