The American spaceplane, X-37B, is gearing up for its seventh mission in space. Scheduled for an early December launch, this cutting-edge machine will be launched into space aboard SpaceX's mighty ...

and the Atlas V rocket from United Launch Alliance. As pointed out by Space.com, most details of the X-37B mission are kept confidential. Nevertheless, a statement by the U.S. Space Forces on USSF ...

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 ...

In case you forgot it was still up there. That U.S. Space Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-7) has silently slipped past one-year of flight time. The craft is engaged in performing aerobrake ...

The X-37B craft has now been circling the earth for ... The X-37 project is also important because the space plane is reusable. Each launch uses a booster rocket, but the craft can safely land ...

WSJ’s Shelby Holliday looks at what the U.S.’s Boeing-made X-37B spacecraft is capable of doing, and how these launches underscore the intensifying space race between superpowers. Photo ...

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 ...

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the SpaceX company have launched the Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the X-37B uncrewed ... super heavy-lift launch vehicle, is part ...

Those tests paved the way for the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, scheduled to launch in early 2010 from Cape Canaveral. The X-37B will reach orbit atop an Atlas V booster, reenter the atmosphere ...