Important Innovations Collection

1 Hour Flight Beijing to New York City                                             Source:  China Transportation It Is Literally a Blast Chinese startup aerospace company Space Transportation's new space plane is being developed to carry passengers at speeds up to 2,600 mph in suborbital space to go from "point-to-point". That includes space tourism adventures and bullet-fast aircraft flights on Earth. The company says their new technology can fly passengers from Beijing to New York City in one hour. Space Transportation calls the new space plane a "rocket with wings".  They say it will be a fully reusable space plane with large triangular wings with rocket boosters. The concept is a blast into suborbital space and a new form of passenger air travel to space and for travel to destinations here on Earth being developed in China.   How Does ...

US Space Force & USAF X-37B Space Plane Mission Source:  MIT Technology Review Launch Date Sunday May 17, 2020 The US Space Force & USAF's next top secret mission of its unmanned, robotic, long duration, X-37B space plane is set to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida tomorrow.  It will hurtle into space onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for what is now being called the US Space Force's OTV-6/USSF-7 mission. This is another secret mission for one of the most fascinating space planes in the universe. Green, Solar Powered, Space Plane The X-37B is an unpiloted, long distance, long duration flight spacecraft.  It flies classified missions that can last months and even years for the US military.  It is a green machine that's powered by a solar array that's the size of a pickup truck and embedded inside the space plane. Tremendous Technology The technology is incredible. There are 2, X-37B space planes built by Boeing.  The winged a...

700 Days into a Secret Mission Source:  US Air Force X-37B Military Space Plane The US Air Force's X-37B space plane has been orbiting the Earth for the past 700 days.  No one, except top military and Trump Administration officials, knows exactly what the mission and the payload are.  We do know that the vehicle is robotic, solar-powered and reusable.  It launched on its fifth mission on September 7, 2017 and has been orbiting the Earth ever since. Mystery Missions What the X-37B is doing is the subject of speculation.  The mission is called Orbital Test Vehicle 5.  The Air Force will only say that the X-37B tests technologies for future reusable spacecraft and also has scientific experiments on board.  For the most part the payloads are classified.  But the Air Force did disclose that there is an experiment to see how oscillating heat pipes and certain electronics perform in space. Boeing Built The Air Force has two X-37Bs, built by...