launched from USA

X-37B OTV-6

Success
MAY 17202013:14:00 UTC

Atlas V carried the X-37B spaceplane, designated USSF-7, on its sixth mission and the first with a service module attached behind the vehicle to host more experiments. The US Air Force Academy's FalconSAT-8 was released from the spaceplane, which also carried NASA and Naval Research Laboratory experiments.

The spacecraft landed at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility on 12 November 2022, after 908 days in orbit, the longest X-37B mission to that date.

launched from SLC-41 Canaveral

aboard Atlas V 501 AV-081 into LEO

Broadcast

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Payloads · 2

  • 01

    X-37B OTV-6

    Technology demonstration

  • 02

    FalconSAT-8

    Technology demonstration

last updated Oct 8, 2026