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Air Force Tech Report: X-37B

Air Force TV / Published November 22, 2017

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FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (AFNS) – The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is the Air Force's experimental test program to demonstrate space technologies. Learn how it gets into orbit and some of the features that helps this unmanned space platform boldly go where few have gone before.

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- X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle
- X-37B OTV Face Sheet
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