The X-37B on the runway at Vandenberg Space Force Base following its landing there on March 7, 2025. Image: U.S. Space Force. Update Aug. 20, 12:56 p.m. EDT: Added additional information from the 45th ...
The Space Force launched its X-37B spaceplane late Thursday for its eighth experimental mission. The spacecraft flew from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. While many ...
The US military’s robotic mini-space shuttle dropped out of orbit and glided to a runway in California late Thursday, ending a 434-day mission that pioneered new ways of maneuvering in space. The ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Space Force's secret space plane, the X-37B, shared an image from orbit for the first time. The reusable orbital test ...
-America’s X-37B space plane looks like a scaled-down shuttle, but it has become one of the most consequential military programs of the post-Cold War era. -Born as a NASA technology demonstrator and ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaks away from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to begin the USSF-36 mission with the X-37B spaceplane onboard. More than eight minutes after liftoff, the ...
There are probably aircraft and spaceplanes in this world we literally know nothing about, and those are by all intents and purposes the true secret ones. The X-37B is only partially so: everybody ...
Artist rendering of the X-37B conducting an aerobraking maneuver using the drag of Earth’s atmosphere. (Boeing Space) Ten months into its latest and largely classified mission, the Space Force’s X-37B ...
-Officially a platform for testing advanced space technologies, the X-37B has generated speculation about its potential military applications, including the ability to carry nuclear weapons, disrupt ...
The US X-37B and China's Shenlong are unmanned spacecraft that play secretive roles in space. Space-based technology has long given the US military an edge. A space plane like the Shenlong could be an ...
It turns out some of the informed speculation about the US military’s latest X-37B spaceplane mission was pretty much spot-on. When the semi-classified winged spacecraft launched on December 28, it ...