The mysterious unmanned military spacecraft Boeing X-37B broke the record for being in orbit. The previous record was broken in 2019, when the spacecraft landed after 780 days in space, but now Boeing has announced that the record has been broken, as the spacecraft has already been in orbit for 781 days, as the company calls it. next task. However, this message was published on July 7, which means that X-37B has been in space for 784 days now and it is not yet known when it will return to Earth.

The new Orbital Test Vehicle 6 mission was launched on May 17, 2020. This is already the sixth mission, and the device made its first flight in 2010! At the same time, there are still many rumors about the purpose of the Boeing X-37B. In particular, the mass media often write that it is a device for experiments with orbital weapons.

Despite this, some data is quite accessible to anyone interested. For example, as part of the current mission last year, one of the experiments involved testing the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s photovoltaic radio frequency antenna module. This module is designed to convert solar energy into microwave radiation. Source