Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle

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Boeing's X-37B was launched today atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Air Force is very secretive about the unmanned orbital vehicle. They launched just before the arrival of hurricane Irma.
SpaceX launches Air Force's super-secret mini shuttle | Daily Mail Online

SpaceX has successfully launched the Air Force's super-secret space shuttle, a technology tester capable of spending years in orbit.

The unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, as schools and businesses boarded up for Hurricane Irma.

It's the fifth flight for one of these crewless minishuttles, known as the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, and marks the first time Elon Musk's aerospace firm has provided liftoff for the experimental craft.

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The X-37B has been in orbit for 719 days. The old record was 717 by the OTV-4.
https://gizmodo.com/secret-u-s-air-force-spaceplane-breaks-record-with-719-1837605822

The U.S. Air Force’s Boeing X-37B spaceplane broke a record yesterday for the most amount of time in orbit around the Earth. But we still don’t know when the uncrewed plane is going to land or even what it’s doing up there. All of the details about the X-37B mission are classified.

As of 6:43am ET today, the X-37B spaceplane’s fifth mission, dubbed the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-5), will have spent 719 days in orbit—just 11 days shy of a full two years circling the globe. The previous record was 717 days, 20 hours and 42 minutes, achieved just a few years earlier with OTV-4.