The X-37B Just Passed a Year in Orbit on Its Eighth Secret Mission. Russia Calls It a Nuclear Bomber.

The X-37B Just Passed a Year in Orbit on Its Eighth Secret Mission. Russia Calls It a Nuclear Bomber.

One year into its eighth classified mission, the X-37B keeps breaking its own records: 908 days aloft, stealthy aerobraking, a quantum sensor that navigates without GPS. Moscow says it's a nuclear bomber. Analysts say the bay is too small and the logic too poor — and that the ambiguity itself is the point.