Lakshmi Kantha was interview by the Wall Street Journal for a new video on the Boeing X-37B.
The uncrewed military space plane can stay aloft for over a year and recently started a new, classified mission.
Kantha is a professor emeritus in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences with more than four decades of aerospace experience.
The video focuses on potential missions for the X-37B, which have not been disclosed publicly. In the interview, Kantha discussed the value of the craft for national security purposes.