During the first six missions, the X-37B spent more than 3,774 days in orbit. It launched on its current mission, OTV-7, on ...

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The American spaceplane, X-37B, is gearing up for its seventh mission in space. Scheduled for an early December launch, this cutting-edge machine will be launched into space aboard SpaceX's mighty ...

By Nicholas Slayton Posted on Nov 6, 2022 The U.S. military’s uncrewed space plane has set a record for its longest flight in orbit. The X-37B craft has now been circling the earth for 902 days ...

The U.S. and China recently launched secretive space missions using high-tech space planes. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday looks at what the U.S.’s Boeing-made X-37B spacecraft is capable of doing, and ...

Ten months into its latest and largely classified mission, the Space Force's X-37B spaceplane is embarking on a new set of ...

Meet the X-37B – In the latest iteration of the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy, China is cited as America’s “pacing military threat,” rather than just a “global competitor.” ...

On May 7, the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida got a loud surprise. One of the Air Force's two secret X-37B space planes announced its re-entry to Earth with a loud sonic boom.

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 ...

Those tests paved the way for the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, scheduled to launch in early 2010 from Cape Canaveral. The X-37B will reach orbit atop an Atlas V booster, reenter the atmosphere ...