OTV-5

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

14:00:00

Thursday September 7, 2017

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Mission Details

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OTV-5

Wiki

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. The X-37 is operated by the United States Air Force for orbital spaceflight missions intended to demonstrate reusable space technologies. It is a 120%-scaled derivative of the earlier Boeing X-40.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

4,990 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Falcon 9 Block 4

Active 2017 to 2018

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Agency

SpaceX

Price

$62.00 million

Rocket

Diameter: 3.7m

Height: 70m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 22,800 kg

GTO: 8,300 kg

Liftoff Thrust

6,804 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 5.2m

Height: 13m

Stages

2

Launch Site

LC-39A

Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

5 days 6 hours

Stats

Falcon 9


42nd

Mission

13th

Mission of 2017

SpaceX


47th

Mission

13th

Mission of 2017

2017


56th

Orbital launch attempt