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 ...
What You Need to Know: The U.S. Space Force's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-7) is pioneering a new milestone with aerobraking maneuvers, using Earth's atmosphere to slow and change its 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.
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 ...