X-37B: What To Know About The US Space Force's Orbit Shifting Spacecraft
Boeing has built a nice little wonder in the X-37B – the US Space Force’s reusable launch vehicle into space . The X-37B is ...
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Space Force's mysterious X-37B begins 'aerobraking' to lower orbit. Here's how it works (video)
The U.S. military's highly secretive X-37B space plane just got a little less mysterious. In a rare show of openness about the space plane's operations, Boeing and the U.S. Space Force released a ...
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X-37B Space Plane Uses Groundbreaking Aerobraking Maneuvers: Here's Why It Matters
The X-37B was launched into orbit in late December 2023 and was carried into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. It is the seventh mission involving the Boeing-made spacecraft, and has been ...
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Space Force’s secretive X-37B plane has spent more than 900 days in orbit
The X-37B craft has now been circling the earth for 902 days, greatly exceeding its previous record of 780 days. And it doesn’t appear to be coming back to Earth any time in the immediate future.
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U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket
Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — The seventh mission of the reusable U.S. Air Force X-37B ...
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Inside Boeing’s X-37B Space Plane Conducting Secret Missions for the U.S.
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 ...