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1-The spooks have been doing secure comm for quite a few decades now. There's no reason why encrypted data cannot go via the same channels.2-The problem with that is the USAF didn't "inherit" this; they chose to do it. Total program cost is classified, but we do know that the Atlas rocket that they used cost on the order of $130+ million apiece (and I suspect a lot more than that). So figure that the launch costs alone were at least $300 million. Then there's operations costs and the costs of the vehicles. This program probably costs a billion dollars or more. That's a WAG on my part, but the USAF cannot fire a bottle rocket without spending a few hundred million.That's the dilemma for the X-37B: if it is a test program, it is pretty expensive, and why the classification? So the cost and the classification imply that it's doing something important and useful, and what could that be?
1-The spooks have been doing secure comm for quite a few decades now. There's no reason why encrypted data cannot go via the same channels.
2-The problem with that is the USAF didn't "inherit" this; they chose to do it. Total program cost is classified, but we do know that the Atlas rocket that they used cost on the order of $130+ million apiece (and I suspect a lot more than that). So figure that the launch costs alone were at least $300 million. Then there's operations costs and the costs of the vehicles. This program probably costs a billion dollars or more. That's a WAG on my part, but the USAF cannot fire a bottle rocket without spending a few hundred million.
That's the dilemma for the X-37B: if it is a test program, it is pretty expensive, and why the classification? So the cost and the classification imply that it's doing something important and useful, and what could that be?
