The Pentagon revealed what will soon take the secret X-37B mini shuttle into orbit
US Air force Secret Space Program.
It turns out that X-37B is already on 16 may starting on board with a small satellite called FalconSat-8, which was designed and built by cadets from the US Air force Academy In addition, NASA wants to test a special seed under cosmic radiation conditions. They are intended to help astronomers in colonization of the moon and the red planet.
But that's not all. Pentagon place a special energy transmission system on the Earth's surface and on military reconnaissance flights in X-37B. This is the Naval Research Laboratory project. The system converts solar energy into microwave radio frequency energy and then transmits energy to the object.
Although this sounds intriguingly, more information has not been published. This is confirmed by previous news that X-37B can be a mobile energy source for military vehicles. Recently Pentagon reported that the mini-pendulum was used as a support for fighter jets.
X-37b Propulsion System.
If the X-37B is actually driven by a nuclear reactor (apart from solar panels), it can transmit energy to the drones thanks to the new technology, so that it can remain practically indefinitely in the air.
Interestingly, the mini-pendulum can have a special module attached to the rear to allow additional loads to be transported to the steering controller. Of course, the experiments revealed are only a drop in the sea of what will be tested in orbit for another two years. In any case, the US space forces are growing more and more rapidly in space to be a step from China and Russia.