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 unmanned X-37B spaceplane, operated by the United States Air Force, has been in orbit for over a year. Although its tests ...

A new type of passenger plane will adopt a design that blends wings into the aircraft's body, which its creators say will cut ...

The U.S. Space Force’s unmanned X-37B space plane continues to orbit Earth, raising questions about its true purpose. While ...

X-37B was designed by Boeing and is currently managed by the US Air Force as part of their foray into reusable space ...

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 ...

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

1st Lt. Jason Kaynak, 4th Space Operations Squadron Mission Planning Cell tactician, trains with Spc. 4 Jack Wallace, 4 SOPS ...

The U.S. military’s youngest branch, Space Force, turned five years old on Friday. Like other young institutions it’s spent its time rapidly growing, building up the number of guardians ...

In August, for example, Schöfbänker managed to photograph Shenlong, China’s highly classified, reusable space plane that is still orbiting Earth. Although grainy to the amateur observer ...

The X-37B space plane is one of the most mysterious spacecraft in use right now. Owned and operated by the U.S. Space Force, the X-37B was originally scheduled to launch earlier this month.

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 ...