• Kata1yst
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    1011 months ago

    To be clear, it’s probably not a spy vehicle. It is probably testing technologies for use in spy vehicles.

    • @mlg
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      110 months ago

      Or launching mini spy vehicles lol.

      • Kata1yst
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        310 months ago

        Lol… But why would it? There’s only 3 of these things and they’ve only launched 7 missions. They’re also only 29 feet long. And are payload hogs on their launch vehicles.

        It’s about 500 times easier to just piggy back 20 micro-sats on the next atlas or falcon.

        The whole “x37 is a spy program” was literally started by speculation in an opinion piece with zero evidence. It being a visible and public program mean it’s absolutely almost certainly not an active spy program. Especially combined with it’s mission profiles.