{"id":10682,"date":"2015-05-31T15:39:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T19:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10682"},"modified":"2015-05-31T15:39:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T19:39:40","slug":"hobbyists-tracking-the-x-37b-spaceplane-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10682","title":{"rendered":"Hobbyists tracking the X-37B spaceplane in orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spacecraft tracking hobbyists are now following\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boeing_X-37\" target=\"_blank\">X-37B<\/a> US military spaceplane, which was recently launched onto an undisclosed orbit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/29516-x37b-space-plane-amateur-photos.html\" target=\"_d\">Air Force&#8217;s Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Spotted by Amateur Astronomers &#8211; Leonard David\/Space.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2015\/05\/27\/x-37b-spaceplanes-orbit-discovered\/\" target=\"_d\">X-37B spaceplane\u2019s orbit discovered &#8211;\u00a0Spaceflight Now<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more about seeing and tracking spacecraft of all sorts, see the <a class=\"linkLocal\" href=\"..\/SatWatching\/index.html\">HobbySpace Satellite Observing section<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacecraft tracking hobbyists are now following\u00a0the X-37B US military spaceplane, which was recently launched onto an undisclosed orbit: Air Force&#8217;s Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Spotted by Amateur Astronomers &#8211; Leonard David\/Space.com X-37B spaceplane\u2019s orbit discovered &#8211;\u00a0Spaceflight Now For more about seeing and tracking spacecraft of all sorts, see the HobbySpace Satellite Observing section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellite-watching","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2Mi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5583,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5583","url_meta":{"origin":10682,"position":0},"title":"Video of X-37B passes + Tracking secret spacecraft","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The reusable\u00a0X-37B\u00a0military spaceplane still in orbit after a year was spotted recently by an amateur spacecraft tracker \u00a0(via\u00a0Spaceports blog): On Nov 24th and 28th, 2013, Kevin Fetter of Brockville, Ontario captured imagery of the U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane in the night sky. 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