That technique enables the spacecraft to change orbits while expending minimal fuel. — X-37B: The Space Force's mysterious space plane ...

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 ...

Usually tight-lipped about the X-37B's orbital operations ... The 29-foot-long space plane still has some more experiments to ...

That U.S. Space Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-7 ... was placed in an orbit higher than any of the earlier space plane missions – into a highly elliptical high Earth orbit.

experimental space plane will be performing a new kind of specialized brake maneuver as it returns to Earth’s atmosphere, the ...

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 ...

One of the Air Force's two secret X-37B space planes announced its re-entry to Earth with a loud sonic boom. The plane is part of the Air Force's X-37 program. Not much is known about this program ...

There were satellite photos of the Chinese space plane after landing that showed a space plane similar in size to the American X-37B. The second launch and orbital activity was more closely observed.

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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.” Released in ...

The US Space Force is gearing up for the seventh launch of its secretive X-37B space plane, hinting at its highest and longest flight yet, said a report by science and technology magazine ...