The Space Force's top-secret aircraft has been in a highly elliptical high Earth orbit since December 2023. That U.S. Space Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-7) has silently slipped past one-year ...

The U.S. military's highly secretive X-37B space plane just got a little less mysterious. In a rare show of openness about ...

By Nicholas Slayton Posted on Nov 6, 2022 The U.S. military’s uncrewed space plane has set a record for its longest flight in orbit. The X-37B craft has now been circling the earth for 902 days ...

That technique enables the spacecraft to change orbits while expending minimal fuel. — X-37B: The Space Force's mysterious space plane ...

In a rare display of transparency about X-37B, Boeing Space, the makers of the space plane, have recently released a video explaining how the first-of-its-kind demonstration works. Known as ...

The U.S. and China recently launched secretive space missions using high-tech space planes. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday looks at what the U.S.’s Boeing-made X-37B spacecraft is capable of doing, and ...

Meet the X-37B – In the latest iteration of the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy, China is cited as America’s “pacing military threat,” rather than just a “global competitor.” Released in ...

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One of the Air Force's two secret X-37B space planes announced its re-entry to Earth with a loud sonic boom. The plane is part of the Air Force's X-37 program. Not much is known about this program ...

There were satellite photos of the Chinese space plane after landing that showed a space plane similar in size to the American X-37B. The second launch and orbital activity was more closely observed.

2023 It’s likely that the recent delay of the U.S. Space Force’s X-37B space plane launch played some part. That launch was originally slated for earlier this month but is now set to take ...