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  • Report: Boeing-Built X-37B Space Plane Logs 500+ Days in Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing-Built X-37B Space Plane Logs 500+ Days in Orbit

    A Boeing-built orbital test vehicle has spent more than 500 days in Earth orbit since the U.S. Air Force launched the unmanned spacecraft from Cape Canaveral in Florida last year, Space.com reported Monday. Leonard David writes the X-37B space plane launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on May 20, 2015 as part of the Orbital Test Vehicle-4 mission. The X-37B […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne's 2nd-Gen Hall Thruster Completes On-Orbit Validation Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne’s 2nd-Gen Hall Thruster Completes On-Orbit Validation Test

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed initial on-orbit validation tests of its upgraded XR-5 Hall Thruster using Boeing‘s X-37 unmanned space plane as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s Orbital Test Vehicle mission 4. The five-kilowatt XR-5A Hall Thruster includes performance and operating range modifications based on the results of XR-5’s initial low-rate production and flight programs, Aerojet Rocketdyne said July 1. […] More