Comments on: Space Force preps for the next X-37B mission https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/space-force-preps-for-the-next-x-37b-mission/ Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:10:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/space-force-preps-for-the-next-x-37b-mission/#comment-1618956 Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:10:17 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=116361#comment-1618956 Mitch S.,

Wouldn’t surprise me at all if that was so. The more recent staff at Phantom Works doesn’t seem up to what their predecessors could do. They blew off the XS-1 project that DARPA was trying to gin up, for example. I just hope they can keep the X-37s flying.

]]> By: Mitch S. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/space-force-preps-for-the-next-x-37b-mission/#comment-1618849 Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:11:31 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=116361#comment-1618849 Maybe the engineers who designed the X-37 were “a bunch of overpaid old timers” purged by one of Boeing’s “genius” ex-GE CEOs.

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/space-force-preps-for-the-next-x-37b-mission/#comment-1618833 Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:55:52 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=116361#comment-1618833 Jeff Wright,

Yep. X-37 is going uphill on an F9 this time, not an FH. All the stuff to be tested on this next excursion can apparently be done in LEO.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/space-force-preps-for-the-next-x-37b-mission/#comment-1618725 Sat, 16 Aug 2025 22:02:34 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=116361#comment-1618725 This one on a single core, I assume

]]> By: Dave https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/space-force-preps-for-the-next-x-37b-mission/#comment-1618569 Sat, 16 Aug 2025 04:57:21 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=116361#comment-1618569 The quantum inertial sensor is probably the one built by AOSense that Boeing tested on a plane flight last year:

https://thequantuminsider.com/2024/08/09/boeings-quantum-based-navigation-system-takes-flight-in-historic-test/

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