NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

OTV-5

Launch Time
Thu Sep 07, 2017 14:00 UTC

Rocket

Falcon 9 Block 4
Image Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX
Status: Retired
Price: $62.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 6,804 kN
Payload to LEO: 22,800 kg
Payload to GTO: 8,300 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 70.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 5.2 m
Fairing Height: 13.0 m

Vehicles

Landing Zone 1

B1040

Flight #1
21st Falcon recovery attempt
16th successful Falcon recovery
12th consecutive successful Falcon landing and recovery
Kennedy SLF Runway 15

Vehicle 2

Flight #3
841 day turnaround

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