launched from USA

X-37B OTV-1

Success
APR 22201023:52:00 UTC

First flight of the Atlas V 501 configuration, which carried the Air Force's X-37B spaceplane on its first mission. The vehicle spent 224 days in orbit and landed autonomously at Vandenberg on 3 December 2010, the first American autonomous orbital runway landing. The Air Force never disclosed what experiments it carried.

launched from SLC-41 Canaveral

aboard Atlas V 501 into LEO

Payload

USA-212 (X-37B OTV-1)

Technology demonstration

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