X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV)

[TomcatViP]

Wrong, its structure is only designed for 500lb launch and landing. Launch has higher loads than landing. The only way an X-37 "mission" carried more payload mass was in the service module.

That a rather ridiculous assertion... (As often)

Thank you and bye bye.

 

[Byeman]

That a rather ridiculous assertion... (As often)

Thank you and bye bye.

Not an assertion but fact, I worked early X-37 launch vehicle integration.

 

[Byeman]

That a rather ridiculous assertion... (As often)

Thank you and bye bye.

I know the ins and out of the basic vehicle and still have some of the documentation. What have you done X-37 or space flight related, if anything? Or are you just an another of the unwashed masses posting on forums and adding to the misinformation?

 

[archipeppe]

I know the ins and out of the basic vehicle and still have some of the documentation. What have you done X-37 or space flight related, if anything? Or are you just an another of the unwashed masses posting on forums and adding to the misinformation?

Absolutely true.

What most people miss about the X-37 is that there was a NASA X-37A before the USAF/USSF X-37B.
Essentially, by aerodynamical and structural point of view, they are the very same vehicles.

So the original NASA/Boing documentation should be more or less public access.
What the X-37B differs from the X-37A is the avionics and (most of all) its payload but the general characteristics remains the same.

 

[TomcatViP]

Not an assertion but fact, I worked early X-37 launch vehicle integration.

A and you weren't able to understand our orbital geometry discussion earlier. !!

C'mon, many people work on projects without having a total understanding of its performances. This is rather common on sensitive projects such as a DoD(W) programs that can be heavily compartimented. But also in more benign large industrial projects.

As a young kid I use to work at KFC, I have still no idea who came first, the Chicken or the Egg?