NASA's original vision for an X-37 Orbital Vehicle never materialized, but its design served as the foundation for what eventually became the Air Force's X-37B. The post Space Force's Boeing X-37B ...
Earlier today, the U.S. Space Force quietly released the first ever in-orbit photo from Boeing’s X-37, a highly secretive reusable robotic spacecraft fielded by the DOD. The image, taken on the ...
"The successful execution of the aerobraking maneuver underscores the U.S. Space Force’s commitment to pushing the bounds of ...
The plane is known as the X-37B, and it launched atop a Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 28, 2023. The uncrewed Boeing vehicle remains in orbit, according to the Space Force, preforming ...
WSJ’s Shelby Holliday looks at what the U.S.’s Boeing-made X-37B spacecraft is capable of doing, and how these launches underscore the intensifying space race between superpowers. Photo ...
The Boeing-built spacecraft is derived from NASA’s original X-37 program, which ran from 1999 to 2004. It was then transferred to DARPA before being taken over by the Air Force Rapid ...
The U.S. Space Force's unmanned spaceplane exited orbit after 434 days and landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base ...
The plane is known as the X-37B, and it launched atop a Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 28, 2023. The uncrewed Boeing vehicle remains in orbit, according to the Space Force ...
(Courtesy graphic by Boeing Space) More recently ... when the Air Force began working with NASA on what was then just the X-37. In 2004, the project was transferred to DARPA, which completed ...