[X37B-OTV2] Lancement et déroulement de la mission

tatiana13 a écrit:après ce magnifique lancement

deux objets "collector"

- une maquette

Spaceman a écrit:

tatiana13 a écrit:après ce magnifique lancement

deux objets "collector"

- une maquette

La maquette vient de chez Dragon Models. Le lien pour celle de l'Atlas V: http://www.dragon-models.com/html/56246.htm
Le lien pour la maquette du X-37B: http://www.dragon-models.com/html/50377p1.htm
Un distributeur de maquettes aux USA mentionne aussi la sortie de la version NASA du X-37. Voir: http://www.flyingmule.com/products/DM-50386

Et je suis surpris (j'ai peut-être loupé les posts sur ce sujet!) de ne pas avoir vu de discussions au sujet de la collection Espace de chez Dragon Models... :scratch:

Une bien belle collection.

Leur catalogue est disponible au format pdf ici: http://www.dragon-models.com/catalog/catalog/Spacecatalog2011.PDF

Yantar a écrit:

Steph a écrit:Vous avez vu le flexible qui reste connecté à la coiffe ? :scratch:

C'est tout à fait normal. On le retrouvait sur les précédentes versions de l'Atlas et les versions des Titan qui utilisaient l'étage Centaur. Il s'agit d'un évent de l'étage cryogénique. D'ailleurs, voici un croquis l'illustrant en juxtaposition avec la coiffe de l'Atlas V qui a lancé New-Horizons

Astro-notes a écrit:Info trouvée sur le JSR 639 de Jonhatan McDowell :

Jonhatan nous informe que Greg Roberts a retrouvé le OTV-2 X-37b sur une orbite presque circulaire : 315 x 341 km x 43°

http://www.space.com/11240-video-secret-x37b-space-plane-skywatchers.html

Russian rocket into space has helped bring a new American military shuttle
:: 03/30/2011

As previously reported, 6 March 2011 from the cosmodrome "Cape Canaveral" (USA, Florida) in 01 hr 46 min MSCs was performed start launcher Atlas V »with orbital spacecraft« OTV-2 ". As part of the first stage launch vehicle has successfully worked for the Russian RD 180 № 34t development and production of NPO Energomash. Last start was the 30 th consecutive successful launch rocket Atlas, in the first stage which includes the RD 180.

Recall that the Atlas V »orbited drone X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle 2 (OTV-2). This is the second drone. The first returned to earth after a 270-day stay in orbit.

According to the agency, the UAV will provide a platform for testing of satellite sensors and systems. According to official reports, while working with the second unit X-37B will take into account experience of the previous mission. Other details of the launch vehicle and mission details are classified, the agency reports.

X-37B program led by NASA's first, but then came under the leadership of the Pentagon's department for research and development, and then to a secret unit of the U.S. Air Force.

In total, the development and creation of the first pilot of the military "space shuttle" over ten years were spent an impressive amount - $ 496 million Future project costs not disclosed, but we know that they will be met from the budget secret U.S. Air Force.

X-37B became the first auto transport spacecraft, reusable derived by the United States into orbit from a strictly military objectives.

For the recognition of leadership the U.S. Air Force Space Command, the project will solve the "long-term goals in space" and become "a new satellite system." On the prospective military nature of the X-37B, and told the deputy commander of the 45 th Wing U.S. Air Force Space Command, Colonel Andre Lovet is responsible for its launch.

Among the specific tasks of the new military space platform called: delivery of sensors and various subsystems into space and from space to Earth, placing it with the help of other spacecraft for various purposes. It is not excluded that the X-37B will be designed for delivery to orbit and space strike weapons. April 24, 2010 newspaper The Christian Science Monitor, citing unnamed U.S. expert wrote that, in their view, the launch of the X-37B means "the beginning of the weaponization of outer space and a prelude to the creation of high-capacity on a global scale." More specifically on the functional characteristics of the military "mini-shuttle" expressed Faculty research in the national security of U.S. Naval Academy in Newport, Joan Johnson-Freese, who described the work on this unit as having a purely military purposes, and its main function - as a "tracking potential of space objects and disabling satellite constellations.

In particular, the Russian military does not exclude the possibility of a military "space shuttle" for concealed output with the help of specialized spacecraft, delivering a near-Earth space and return to Earth expensive reusable equipment, maintenance of long-term orbital platforms, including the military.

In this case, the majority of Russian military experts hold the assumption that X-37B will be one of the main parts of the implementation of the Bush strategy of "global strike Lightning", which fully endorsed Barack Obama in the updated April 6, 2010 nuclear doctrine, and deployment of space strike weapons . The fact that the designs of the present military-political leadership of the U.S., new types of conventional weapons deployed in space, possessing a hypersonic speeds, will strike any object on Earth's surface within a few tens of minutes. In this sense, X-37B may be used to derive a space platform with such kinds of weapons, or serve as a means of placing in orbit.