Status
Success
Rocket
Vehicles
Landing Zone 1
B1040
Flight #1
21st Falcon recovery attempt
16th successful Falcon recovery
12th consecutive successful Falcon landing and recovery
Mission Details
OTV-5
The Boeing X-37, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), is a reusable uncrewed spacecraft. It is boosted into space by a launch vehicle, then re-enters Earth's atmosphere and lands as a spaceplane. The X-37 is operated by the United States Air Force for orbital spaceflight missions intended to demonstrate reusable space technologies. It is a 120%-scaled derivative of the earlier Boeing X-40.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 4,990.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Stats
2017
56th orbital launch attempt
SpaceX
47th mission
13th mission of 2017
41st successful mission
13th consecutive successful mission
Falcon 9
42nd mission
13th mission of 2017
39th successful mission
13th consecutive successful mission