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Seventh X-37B Mission to Have Service Module, Like Sixth Mission, to Permit More Experiments

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Seventh X-37B Mission to Have Service Module, Like Sixth Mission, to Permit More Experiments
The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission 5 lands at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility on Oct. 27, 2019 (Air Force Photo)

The seventh mission of the Boeing [BA] X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is, like the sixth mission, to include a service module attached to the spaceplane's back end--a module that permits the carriage of more experimental payloads, Randall Walden, the director of the U.S. Air Force's Rapid Capabilities Office, said on March 4. "It's been a heavy lifter of doing experimentation in space for a lot of modernization activities for space," Walden said of the X-37B during the Air Force Association…

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