A US military space drone has returned to Earth after nearly two and a half years in space. Boeing has announced that the X-37B unmanned spacecraft landed at Kennedy Space Center on Saturday.
First launched in 2010, the drone has now spent more than a decade in space, covering more than 1.4 billion miles in six missions.
Mission served a series of scientific experiments
It has a length of nine meters and a wingspan of 4.50 meters and is powered by solar cells. The spacecraft was secretly developed for the US military by the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between US companies Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
Before the last launch in May 2020, the Pentagon had said it was a mission for a series of science experiments. Research should include how certain materials react in space and how radiation in space affects different seeds.
Source: Krone
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