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Forum:	Commercial Space - Military Space
Topic:	[Discuss] USAF X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by ilbasso: [B]Given that the X-37B was launched in March and Tiangong-1 went up in September in a similar orbital plane, isn't it just as likely that Tiangong-1 was sent up to spy on the X-37B? :) I suppose the X-37B can change its orbital plane in flight, but that requires a large expenditure of fuel. I haven't gone back to check if any of its orbital parameters have changes since launch, other than periodic re-boosts. I don't doubt that surveillance is part of the X-37B's mission, but I think that concluding that its sole purpose is to spy on Tiangong by making an approach every 170 orbits is a bit of a stretch. There's a lot of stuff that Tiangong can be doing in the other 169 orbits when it's not being approached by the X-37B.[/B][/QUOTE]
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