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 ...

The functionalities and explicit characteristics of the X-37B are still not disclosed. However, it is acknowledged that Boeing developed the shuttle, which embarked on its pioneer voyage in 2010.

The X-37B was engineered by Boeing and made its debut flight in 2010. The aircraft is approximately 29 feet long, and 9.5 feet tall, with a wingspan of around 15 feet. It has an estimated payload ...

The OTV-7 flight marks the first time the U.S. Space Force and the X-37B have attempted to carry out a dynamic aerobraking maneuver. In a statement released last year by Boeing, builder of the ...

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.

The last time the U.S. Air Force's super secretive X-37B space plane launched, it didn't come down until almost two years later — 674 days to be exact. On Wednesday, it launched again ...

MOSCOW, April 23. /TASS/. US Boeing X-37 orbital spacecraft may carry reconnaissance tools or weapons of mass destruction, Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said on Saturday.