For example, we know that OTV-6 tested the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Photovoltaic Radio-frequency Antenna Module. This device, about the size of a pizza box, is designed to convert solar ...

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6), the U.S. Space Force’s unmanned, reusable spaceplane, successfully deorbited and landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility on Nov ...

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-6 sits on the flightline at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., after completing its sixth successful mission, Nov. 12. 2022. The OTV-6 was the first mission to ...

Space Force did not disclose the full list of experiments and equipment carried on OTV-6, but two tests included the effects of radiation on different materials and the impact of space on seeds.

During OTV-6, which launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in May 2020, the autonomous Boeing-built spacecraft also introduced a service module, which the Space Force described as "a ...

The Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6) mission launched on May 17, 2020 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida atop a specially modified Atlas V 501 rocket.

For its sixth mission, classified as Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6), it was launched vertically while perched atop an Atlas V rocket in May 2020. The space plane has now spent roughly 10 years in ...

That record was set during the OTV-6 mission, which spent 908 days in orbit between May 2020 and November 2022. In fact, every X-37B flight since 2011 has spent a longer time in space than OTV-7 ...

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The secretive X-37B spaceplane has just returned from its latest highly classified, long-duration mission. On Mar. 7, 2025, at 07.22 UTC (2.22AM EST), the Boeing X-37B landed at Vandenberg Space ...