US EditionA secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology
IN SPACE, JUL 28 – The X-37B mission will test the highest-performing quantum inertial sensor and high-bandwidth laser communications to enhance navigation and satellite data speeds without GPS, officials said.
- The Boeing-built X-37B space plane will launch its eighth mission, OTV-8, no earlier than August 21, 2025, from Florida's Space Coast.
- After flying several classified missions over the past decade and a half, the Space Force provided more details about OTV-8's technology payloads and goals.
- OTV-8 is set to fly with an added service module that enhances its ability to conduct experiments and support advanced payloads such as a quantum inertial sensor and a laser communications system.
- Gen. Chance Saltzman described OTV-8's laser demonstration as a key advancement that enables the U.S. Space Force to integrate commercial space systems into a broader, resilient satellite communications framework with multiple layers of redundancy and diversity.
- The mission aims to advance navigation technologies that enable precise positioning and maneuvering in GPS-denied environments, which could support future deep space operations.
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MIAMI- The unmanned X-37B aircraft that Boeing designed for the United States Space Force will travel next August with the most powerful quantum inertial sensor carried before, in which it will be its eighth mission and depart from central Florida.The use of the new sensor will allow precise navigation, even in areas where currently GPS does not work, a key technology for future missions in deep space, beyond Earth orbit, and in regions such as …
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