The US Air Force on Sunday successfully launched its high-tech drone X-37B, for its sixth secretive mission in space
with the reusable vehicle into orbit for. Drone used in this mission is of, the manned space shuttles retired by the
US space program in 2011, which was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, as the Air Force said. It will revolve
around the earths orbit, remotely conducting a series of experiments. The drone will also deploy a research
satellite , which is FalconSat-8,which is expected to carry out additional experiments, Secretary of the Air Force
Barbara Barrett explained earlier this month, elaborating on what up to now has been a highly secretive project.
-By Naveen Kumar dwivedi