X-37B heading for KSC?

摘要

Under code name Project Coyote, Space Florida has agreed plans for total refurbishment of Orbiter Processing Facility (OF) hangars at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, for an unnamed customer widely rumoured to be the US Air Force. The facility is believed to be the new home for the Boeing X-37B, two operational vehicles of which have been flown on extended missions in low Earth orbit. The first X-37B space-plane was launched a second time on 11 December 2012 and remains in orbit. NASA has three OPF hangars close by the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), OPF-1 and -2 connected by a low-bay area and OPF-3 north-west of the VAB. OPF-3 was originally the Orbiter Modification and Refurbishment Facility (OMRF) before it received an upgrade to OPF standard for Shuttle processing.