While conducting experiments in a "highly elliptical orbit," the X-37B orbital test vehicle captured a rare image of Earth from high ... space, much like the X-37B. During its first orbital flight ...

The "Fasten Your Space Belts' mission lifted off at 6:17 p.m. ET today (Feb. 18). Rocket Lab launched a high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite toward low Earth orbit this evening (Feb.

Last week, the US Space Force posted a photo online from its uncrewed X-37B space plane's seventh mission, showing the orbital test vehicle above our planet in High Earth Orbit over 22,000 miles away.