While the government remains mum on what the Boeing-built spaceplane performs, it did say that it would deploy the FalconSat-8 produced by the US Air Force Academy in October 2021. This tiny spacecraft, which carried five experimental payloads, remains in orbit today. It also housed a photovoltaic radiofrequency antenna module from the Naval Research Laboratory, which is supposed to transform sun rays into microwave energy and “transmit electricity to the ground.”
