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 ...

Owned and operated by the U.S. Space Force, the X-37B was originally scheduled to launch earlier this month. However, a very coincidental launch of China’s space plane led SpaceX and the Space ...

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 ...

In a statement released last year by Boeing, builder of the X37B "will perform ground-breaking aerobraking maneuvers to take the dynamic spaceplane from one Earth orbit to another while conserving ...

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

Last year, SLD 45 — the world's busiest spaceport in 2024 — saw a record-breaking 93 rocket launches from the Eastern Range, ...

The launch of the plane was exceptionably coincidental, too. SpaceX and the U.S. Space Force had previously been working towards the seventh liftoff of the X-37B (which is pictured at the top of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The launch was dedicated to front line workers and those affected by the pandemic. A message including the words "America Strong" was written on the rocket's payload fairing. X-37B is a classified ...

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 ...