signed with NASA in July 1999. (Flight Operations Control Center). The X-40A will perform a total of seven drop tests to support the low-speed atmospheric flight dynamics of the X-37. “We are ...

The photo, taken during the X-37B’s seventh mission, shows Earth from High-Elliptical Orbit. On Feb. 20, 2025, the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs uploaded on the DVIDS website, what is ...

The unmanned spaceplane returned to Earth after spending an impressive 908 days in orbit. The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle successfully deorbited and landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle ...

The Boeing X-37 is America’s secretive space plane, operated by the U.S. Space Force for missions that remain largely classified. Designed to launch atop a rocket and return like a shuttle, it can ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced Sunday that a planned Space Force mission involving the U.S. military’s secretive X-37B spacecraft has been pushed back a day due to the weather. The launch was initially ...

The small space plane has been conducting a series of experiments from the upper atmosphere for the last two years. By Nicholas Slayton Published Nov 6, 2022 2:54 PM EST The U.S. military’s uncrewed ...

The Space Force is collecting reams of data from each X-37B mission and using it to inform future space operations. Credit: U.S. Space Force As the Pentagon explores how to fight future wars in space, ...