I guess it is just time for another drone thread.

Same thing as a space fighter, I suppose.

Put on your tin foil hat and think about operation Ivy Bells back in 1971, the USS Halibut, and Dr. John Craven.

Whispering in the ear of a spy satellite could have all sorts of entertainment value.

..is why NASA lost a lot of its' funding...the military needs it more for its' own 'space program'?

I believe the air force picked it up when NASA dropped it.

So, it's a year+ satellite that can land.

Now that would make it interesting...!

Chemtrails, of course.
And I am not a conspiracy theorist.

They said the cargo area is about the size of a pickup truck bed.

An X-37B robotic space plane sits on the Vandenberg Air Force base runway during post-landing operations on Dec. 3, 2010. Personnel in self-contained protective atmospheric suits conduct initial checks on the robot space vehicle after its landing. This same craft is due to launch again in fall 2012.
CREDIT: U.S. Air Force/Michael Stonecypher

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Just enough of a news story at least to maybe inspire some
real journalistic effort to "reveal" WTF this is all about.

Probably an LEO spy satellite experiment, imo.

So it wasn't a scientific mission.

Everything seems to be about war and secutity these days.

but at least the war machine has its own - secret - space vehicle.

...until this thing was orbiting the planet. Coincidence?

Unless it's secret?

Sorry, keep forgetting about the rules of plutocracy and fascism.