The United States Space Force (USSF) launched the USSF-52 mission at 8:07 pm on Dec. 28 from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., in what marked the seventh flight for the Boeing [BA]-built X-37B and its first launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, the service said. "The X-37B tests include operating in new orbital regimes, experimenting with space domain awareness technologies and investigating radiation effects to NASA materials," Space Force said on Dec. 29. William D. Bailey, the director of the…
