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Old 26th Jan 2019, 08:12
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KiloB
 
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X37b

One of the possibilities is that the X37b is the ‘mother ship’ and carries a LO vehicle which can manouver independently to overhead areas of interest.
This gets round the ‘you can see it coming’ problem and would explain the long mission times.
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