Космический беспилотник X-37B провел на орбите больше 500 суток

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Программы тактического офиса Дарпы:
darpa.mil
Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM)
a portfolio of programs that address revolutionary approaches to the design, verification and manufacturing of complex defense systems and vehicles. The portfolio consists of three primary programs: META, Instant Foundry Adaptive through Bits (iFAB) and Fast Adaptable Next-Generation Ground Vehicle (FANG).
Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES)
ARES is a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) flight module designed to operate as an unmanned platform capable of transporting a variety of payloads. The ARES VTOL flight module is designed to have its own power system, fuel, digital flight controls and remote command-and-control interfaces. Twin tilting ducted fans would provide efficient hovering and landing capabilities in a compact configuration, with rapid conversion to high-speed cruise flight.
Airborne Launch Assist Space Access (ALASA)
The goal of ALASA is to develop a significantly less expensive approach for routinely launching small satellites, with a goal of at least threefold reduction in costs compared to current military and US commercial launch costs. ALASA aims to develop and employ radical advances in launch systems, to include the development of a complete launch vehicle requiring no recurring maintenance or support, and no specific integration to prepare for launch. ALASA is designed for launch from an aircraft to improve performance, reduce range costs and enable more frequent missions, all of which combine to reduce cost.
Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV)
An unmanned vessel optimized to robustly track quiet diesel electric submarines. Advance unmanned maritime system autonomy to enable independently deploying systems capable of missions spanning thousands of kilometers of range and months of endurance under a sparse remote supervisory control model. This includes autonomous compliance with maritime laws and conventions for safe navigation, autonomous system management for operational reliability, and autonomous interactions with an intelligent adversary.
DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC)
To develop ground robots capable of executing complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environments. DARPA seeks to accomplish this by creating and providing government-furnished equipment (GFE) to some DRC participants in the form of a robotic hardware platform with arms, legs, torso and head.
EXtreme ACcuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO)
To revolutionize rifle accuracy and range by developing the first ever guided small-caliber bullet. The EXACTO 50- caliber round and optical sighting technology expects to greatly extend the day and nighttime range over current state-of-the-art sniper systems. The system combines a maneuverable bullet and a real-time guidance system to track and deliver the projectile to the target, allowing the bullet to change path during flight to compensate for any unexpected factors that may drive it off course.
Galileo
Through DARPA's Phoenix program, useable antennas or solar arrays from retired satellites in geosynchronous orbit could be removed and potentially repurposed as components for new satellites to provide vital mission support. However, identifying cooperating satellites from which to harvest an array is a difficult and lengthy task using current ground-based satellite imaging techniques. By introducing precise fiber optic control to ground-based telescopes, this challenge may be overcome. DARPA's Galileo program seeks to bridge the precision fiber optic controls and long-baseline astronomical interferometry technical communities to enable imaging of objects in GEO faster than is possible today. The Galileo program anticipates two phases with three separate task areas in both phases. Task areas involve (1) Mobile telescope/free-space metrology; (2) Fiber backbone/ interferometer/ sensor/ algorithms; and (3) System integration.
Hydra
Aims to develop a distributed undersea network of unmanned payloads and platforms to complement manned vessels. Significantly increased operational reach via remote control of capabilities from over the horizon.
International Space Station SPHERES Integrated Research Experiments (InSPIRE)
Will leverage the human presence in space for rapid, iterative experimentation and design of space capabilities, and provide the next generation of scientists and engineers with exposure and experience in carrying out meaningful space experimentation economically and over reasonable time scales.
Legged Squad Support System (LS3)
DARPA is developing a four-legged robot, the Legged Squad Support System (LS3), to integrate with a squad of Marines or Soldiers. LS3 represents the culmination of a decade of research in perception and autonomy with programs like DARPA's Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle-Perception for Off-Road Robotics Integration (UPI) program, mobility work wit

Они походу чтото с атмосфеой делают, а всем другим лепят сказки про не известно что! Точно также как они назапускали сателитов с ракетами на борту возможно ещё и ядерными!!

М-да.. пиндосы-ястребы втихаря космос осваивали. Вот почему Луна и Марс им нафиг не нужны — программы NASA были свернуты...

Свой "Буран" поЦреоты удушили...

Судя по "отсеку для аппаратуры" будет он "тырить" с орбиты неугодные или секретные спутники и доставлять на землю.

очень интересные эмблемки на заглавной фотке:
— хищный паук в паутине;
— спрут, захвативший землю;
— что-то взорвавшееся на орбите.
добрые, такие, эмблемки, знаковые ...

Только чем ее на орбиту будут доставлять?

НЛО в массы.

Не были пиндосы на Марсе!

про лазеры — это отвлекалочка
самое эффективное применение космическому беспилотнику — загрузить его маневрирующими боеголовками (тайно, т.к. формально размещение в космосе ядерного оружия запрещено)
таким образом всегда, до любой цели на Земле — хоть до Москвы, хоть до Пекина — можно иметь дистанцию 200 км, ни одна ПРО не перехватит