Comments on: X-37B returns successfully to Earth after 908 days in orbit https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/x-37b-returns-successfully-to-earth-after-908-days-in-orbit/ Tue, 15 Nov 2022 23:15:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Star Bird https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/x-37b-returns-successfully-to-earth-after-908-days-in-orbit/#comment-1368807 Tue, 15 Nov 2022 23:15:26 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=90105#comment-1368807 There are many different kinds of Shuttlecraft

]]> By: Robert Pratt https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/x-37b-returns-successfully-to-earth-after-908-days-in-orbit/#comment-1368688 Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:28:33 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=90105#comment-1368688 David, remote is great and needed but it’s almost as if everyone ignores what a major power could do to jam all comms, even light spectrum. I’m sure the military plans for this but history isn’t on the side of them being foolproof. I bet self auto piloting AI is an answer they are using for some platforms but that brings in another set of problems. Just hope we aren’t fighting anyone greater than Iran or similar.

]]> By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/x-37b-returns-successfully-to-earth-after-908-days-in-orbit/#comment-1368614 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:32:05 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=90105#comment-1368614 The shuttle shape is a wonderful design for small craft like this.
Being smaller and lighter it slows down much easier and faster coming back into the atmosphere.

]]> By: BillB https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/x-37b-returns-successfully-to-earth-after-908-days-in-orbit/#comment-1368603 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:06:14 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=90105#comment-1368603 Jeff, I don’t think we need a return to the Shuttle design with the external tanks and side boosters. The vertically landing Starship is the ideal design for interplanetary use as there are no runways elsewhere. Extending that design to landing here on Earth keeps a certain consistency and simplicity in the total vehicle design.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/x-37b-returns-successfully-to-earth-after-908-days-in-orbit/#comment-1368596 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 10:42:18 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=90105#comment-1368596 I would like to see a Buran style Shuttle 2
https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/gyepg3/the_new_and_improved_jsc_space_shuttle_ii/

My thoughts:
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/us-space-shuttle-projects.1928/page-13#post-562354

]]> By: David M. Cook https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/x-37b-returns-successfully-to-earth-after-908-days-in-orbit/#comment-1368568 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 02:58:01 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=90105#comment-1368568 That‘s a very nice spaceplane. Too bad there‘s no pilot! I guess the Air Force of the future won‘t need any flying officers, just button-pushers & lever-pullers.

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