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O n Mar. 7, 2025, at 07.22 UTC (2.22AM EST), the Boeing X-37B landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base, on the central coast of ...
The U.S. military's top-secret X-37B space plane has returned from a mysterious 434-day mission in orbit. The enigmatic mission 'broke new ground' for reusable space technology, according to the U.S.
The Air Force hopes its unmanned X-37 (in taxi tests in 2007) will take on some of the functions of the shuttle USAF It's been a long wait—in some ways, more than 50 years—but in April 2010 ...
The X-37B, developed by Boeing, was conducting a range of maneuvers and testing "space domain awareness technology" while orbiting Earth on Mission 7 of the new platform. Mission 7 was the first ...
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 ...
With its high speed and maneuverability, the Space Force’s secretive X-37B spacecraft could be a critical component in a future space-based missile defense for the United States. Two seemingly ...
This was followed up in 2012 with allegations that the X-37B was spying on the Chinese Tiangong-1 space station module. These claims were naturally denied by the US Air Force, which indicated that ...
A U.S. Military X-37B spaceplane blasted off from Florida on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Thursday. The Pentagon disclosed few details about the classified mission but said the X-37B would be ...
Many details about the X-37B are classified. Still, it is critical to the U.S. Space Force’s ability to conduct space operations in the increasingly contested space environment. The United ...
TL;DR: The U.S. Space Force has successfully completed the seventh mission of the X-37B, an unmanned spaceplane that spent over 434 days in orbit. While its exact purpose remains classified ...