USA-299, also referred to as USSF-7 and Orbital Test Vehicle 6 (OTV-6), is the third flight of the first Boeing X-37B, an American unmanned vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane. It was launched to low Earth orbit aboard an Atlas V launch vehicle from SLC-41 on 17 May 2020.

The Boeing X-37, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), is a reusable robotic spacecraft. It is boosted into space by a launch vehicle, re-enters Earth's atmosphere, and lands as a spaceplane.

Nov 12, 2022 · KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- 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. 12, 2022, at 05:22 a.m.

Nov 14, 2022 · The US Space Force’s (USSF) uncrewed reusable spaceplane X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6) has successfully concluded its sixth mission after spending 908 days in orbit. The mission completion was marked on 12 November, as the spaceplane deorbited and landed at Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing facility in Florida, US.

Nov 12, 2022 · OTV-6: May 17, 2020 to Nov. 12, 2022 (908 days). Space Force and Boeing describe the X-37B as chiefly a testing platform; the vehicle allows researchers to see how payloads work in the...

Dec 24, 2022 · The mission, called OTV-6, is the sixth mission overall for the unmanned, reusable spaceplane and the third for the first X-37B.

Nov 12, 2022 · 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...

May 15, 2020 · It will ferry the X-37B orbital test vehicle (OTV-6) with the most payloads it has ever carried into a Low Earth Orbit (LEO). For this mission an Atlas V in a 501 configuration will launch from Space Launch Complex (SLC) -41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

May 17, 2020 · otv-6 (x-37b) The Boeing X-37, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), is a reusable uncrewed spacecraft. It is boosted into space by a launch vehicle, then re-enters Earth's atmosphere and lands as a spaceplane.

Jul 10, 2022 · OTV-6 launched from Cape Canaveral on May 17, 2020. Two publicly revealed payloads included the Air Force Academy’s FalconSAT-8, which the X-37B deployed into orbit with five experiments and technology demonstrations aboard; and the Naval Research Laboratory’s experimental Photovoltaic Radio-frequency Antenna Module, intended to convert ...