U.S. air force put into orbit an experimental unmanned spacecraft. The Shuttle will stay in space for 5 years, but on his mission known too little.

In the USA from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral (Florida) began a mini-Shuttle X-37B, which are described at the website of NASA. The spacecraft was delivered into orbit using a launch vehicle Atlas V and will stay there for 5 years. With all this, many components of the travel of the Shuttle are kept secret.

The commander of the air force research laboratory major General Tom Masiello announced that the Shuttle would need to test a wide range of technologies such as weather monitoring, warning of missile attack and elegance of navigation, The Guardian reports. In addition is aware of what the X-37B will have to figure out a new electric engine, described as "electric power plant". It is known among other things, that the improved model of the spacecraft will consume less fuel, which, consequently, will lower the costs of its service.

Adept air force captain Christopher holier-than-thou announced that the Shuttle mission "cannot be disclosed", but the ship she will contribute to the development of reusable space vehicles". Up to this point, for many years, the Pentagon denied that the experimental mini-space Shuttle scrupulously able to perform some severe problems.

Since 2010 the U.S. has already made 3 run Apatow series X-37B, built by Boeing company. The main mission of the mini-Shuttle is the possibility of delivery is not very large cargoes into space, and intelligence activities. The last challenge, launched in early December 2012, lasted a record 675 days.
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