Article and cool pictures of the X-37 space plane that has been launched into orbit and landed at Vandenburg AFB a couple of times. Classified mission profiles, and nobody is eager to offer up what sort of payload they are putting into space.

Anyone care to offer up a conspiracy theory?

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/201...lite=obnetwork

Weapons

Maybe they're just too embarrassed to admit to the fact that it's just too damn small to actually put a useful payload into space - it's only about 9 metres long.

Edit: unless it is the payload itself.

It's the new U2.

I'm okay with that as long as they've undergone a thorough background check and don't have high capacity magazines...

Satellite Interceptor ?

I would not think weapons, surveillance yes, there are web pictures of the space plane shadowing Chinese spacecraft.