Here’s how it works. That U.S. Space Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-7) has silently slipped past one-year of flight time. The craft is engaged in performing aerobrake maneuvers ...

set spaceflight records for the fourth consecutive year with 259 launches worldwide and one launch attempt roughly every 34 ...

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle began executing a series of aerobraking maneuvers during its current mission. Credit: ULA They would need to be “lightning-fast, long-range and, if necessary, ...

This model, operational since 2010 after tests with the earlier X-37A variant, has conducted several classified missions in Earth's orbit. The vehicle ... X-37B, this enables a quick orbital ...

Dec. 28 (Delayed from Dec. 10, 11, 13): SpaceX Falcon Heavy from KSC’s Launch Complex 39-A on USSF-52, the third mission for the Space Force, launching the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on its ...

Hours after Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin nailed its first-ever orbital ... vehicle ever built blasted off from the company's Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, at 4:37 pm (2237 GMT) for its seventh test.

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Wednesday pushed back its latest orbital flight test of Starship ... January 16 for Starship's seventh flight test," the company said on X. A 60-minute launch window from ...

Musk has repeatedly used X ... a launch vehicle. Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn. Teams will continue to review data from today's flight test to ...

In 2014, NASA picked Boeing and SpaceX to develop and certify two commercial crew transporter vehicles ... months after the spacecraft's first orbital test flight fell short of its objectives.