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A British naval vessel successfully intercepted and destroyed a suspected attack drone targeting shipping vessels in the Red Sea, as confirmed by the UK's defence secretary, Grant Shapps. This action comes in response to recent attacks by Yemeni rebels in the region. Two major shipping companies, Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, have temporarily suspended passage through the Red Sea strait due to these escalating maritime tensions.

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00:00 SpaceX has announced that it has set December 28 as a target date for the launch of the

00:05 United States military's X-37B robotics spaceplane on its seventh mission into orbit.

00:11 The Falcon Heavy is scheduled to carry USSF-52 into orbit from Florida, as stated in a SpaceX

00:17 post on Friday.

00:19 This date was chosen after a delay earlier in the week for additional system checks.

00:23 Originally planned for a late Sunday launch, the mission was postponed due to adverse weather

00:28 conditions at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

00:32 This upcoming mission marks the seventh for the unmanned X-37B and its inaugural launch

00:37 atop a Falcon Heavy, a configuration of three reusable rocket cores capable of lifting the

00:43 vehicle to higher orbits than ever before.

00:45 Resembling a miniature space shuttle and about the size of a small bus, the X-37B is designed

00:51 for deploying various payloads and conducting technology experiments during extended orbital

00:56 flights.

00:57 Since 2010, the X-37B has completed six previous missions, with its last flight lasting well

01:03 over two years before returning in November 2022.

01:06 The Pentagon has not disclosed the intended orbital altitude for this mission, also referred

01:11 to as the Orbital Test Vehicle.

01:13 However, the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office mentioned in a press statement last

01:17 month that the mission would include tests of new orbital regimes and experiments with

01:22 future space domain awareness technologies.

01:25 In addition to national security payloads, the X-37B carried a NASA experiment to investigate

01:30 the effects of long-term exposure to radiation in space on plant seeds.

01:34 The duration of the space plane's latest mission has not been disclosed by the military,

01:39 but it is expected to remain in orbit until at least June 2026, based on previous trends

01:44 of successively longer flights.

01:46 General B. Chan Saltzman, now chief of space organizations in the Space Force, suggested

01:52 in 2020 that the X-37B might be nearing its final mission, considering it as technology

01:58 that has served its purpose.

02:00 The upcoming X-37B flight will mark the third time it is used by the US government to transport

02:05 a national security payload into orbit.

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