The Boeing-made X-37B is an unmanned, reusable spacecraft that takes off vertically and lands horizontally on a runway. The U.S. Air Force, which owns two X-37B vehicles, has historically been reticent to comment on the capabilities of the X-37B and what it does during its extended...
Final preparations are underway for a Dec. 13 launch opportunity, which will mark the first time the X-37B has lifted off atop SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket.
One of the Air Force's X-37B unmanned, reusable space plane landed at Cape Canaveral after a record-breaking 780 days in orbit.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches the X-37B space plane on the USSF-52 mission for the U.S. Space Force on Dec. 28, 2023 from Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX shut down its livestream of the Falcon Heavy launch before the X-...
The U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane has bagged a prestigious trophy awarded annually for outstanding U.S. achievements in aviation and space.
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U.S. Air Force “The X-37B continues to demonstrate the importance of a reusable space plane,” Barbara Barrett, secretary of the Air Force,saidin a statement after it landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Barrett added that each successive mission undertaken by the X-37...
Since 2010, the United States military has been operating a pair of small reusable spaceplanes that conduct secretive long-duration flights in low Earth orbit. Now officially operating under the auspices of the newly formed Space Force, the X-37Bs allow the military to conduct in-house research...
Air Force. (Image credit: NASA/MSFC) The U.S. Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane program has passed another milestone: Its latest mission marked one year in orbit this week. The reusable unmanned X-37B space plane, flying what the U.S. military calls the Orbital Test Vehicle ...