OTV-1

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

23:52:00

Thursday April 22, 2010

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Launch Notes

First Atlas V 501, maiden flight of OTV-1, the first Boeing X-37, Orbital Test Vehicle.

OTV-1

Wiki

OTV-1 was the first flight of the Boeing X-37B, an American robotic vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing (VTHL) spaceplane. The spaceplane was operated by Air Force Space Command, which has not revealed the specific identity of the spaceship's payload for the mission. The Air Force has stated only that the spacecraft would "demonstrate various experiments and allow satellite sensors, subsystems, components, and associated technology to be transported into space and back."

Low Earth Orbit

5,400 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Atlas V 501

Active 2010 to 2023

United Launch Alliance logo

Agency

ULA

Price

$120.00 million

Rocket

Diameter: 3.81m

Height: 62.2m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 8,210 kg

GTO: 3,780 kg

Liftoff Thrust

3,826 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 5.4m

Height: 26.5m

Stages

2

Launch Site

SLC-41

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

15 days 22 hours

Stats

Atlas V


21st

Mission

2nd

Mission of 2010

United Launch Alliance


40th

Mission

3rd

Mission of 2010

2010


16th

Orbital launch attempt