Should the eighth mission scheduled for August 21 occur as planned, it is believed that the X-37B spacecraft will spend more than a year in orbit.

With competition for presence in and around the Moon heating up between the U.S. and China, this kind of system could be a ...

Can one, unmanned spaceplane spend more than 4,200 days in orbit, peaceably making records and shaping the future of military ...

The U.S. Space Force will launch the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on Aug. 21, 2025, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The U.S. Space Force announced that ...

It’s unclear how long OTV-8 will last, but if past missions are any indication, the unpiloted plane will remain above the planet for a while. X-37B’s most recent mission launched on December 28, 2023 ...

This mission will test the aircraft's GPS-denied navigation capabilities and hardened, laser-based communication systems.

Just a few months after wrapping up its seventh test flight in orbit, Space Force’s experimental vehicle known as X-37B is ...

The aerospace titan and U.S. Space Force on Tuesday said the spacecraft’s eighth mission, OTV-8, is scheduled to launch on August 21 from Boeing’s facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The ...

The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the Boeing X-37B space plane on Aug. 21 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Fla.--an eighth X-37B ...

The X-37B is a bit like NASA's Space Shuttle — however it is uncrewed and launched as a payload as opposed to on the side of boosters. According to Boeing, the X-37B has a body and landing operation ...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., July 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Boeing [NYSE: BA]-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is ...