X-37B Sets New Spaceflight Record Written 8 July 2022

SPACE reports that as of Thursday, the X-37B uncrewed space plane “has been in Earth orbit for 781 days, breaking its previous record of 780. The reusable vehicle designed and built by Boeing is currently flying on its sixth mission, known as Orbital Test Vehicle-6 or OTV-6, which launched on May 17, 2020.” The X-37B’s current mission “includes several classified payloads, but some of its on-board experiments have been made public,” such as the US Naval Research Laboratory’s Photovoltaic Radio-frequency Antenna Module (PRAM), the US Air Force Academy-designed FalconSat-8 satellite, and “two NASA experiments designed to test the effects of radiation on plant seeds and assess the effects of space on various materials.”
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