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In October 2019, the Boeing X-37 returned to Earth after spending 778 days in orbit. Unlike typical NASA missions, this spaceplane operated under military secrecy. Its return to the Kennedy Space ...

The space plane was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida by SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Rocket in 2023 in what was its seventh mission. The aircraft is solar-powered, reusable and ...

SpaceX launched the Boeing-made X-37B plane in 2023 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Space Force said the spaceplane's return marked the seventh successful test flight of its kind.

Space Force officials would not say what’s on board other than a Nasa experiment to gauge the effects of radiation on materials. Its predawn touchdown on Friday at Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle after landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Oct. 2019. Credit: Air Force From time to time, the U.S. military shows glimpses of its X-37B spaceplane ...

Most advanced re-entry spacecraft' In 1999, NASA selected Boeing to design a reusable orbital test vehicle to monitor and repair satellites closely. Over the next four years, the X-37 underwent ...

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 ...

In context: Boeing and NASA began developing the first Orbital Test Vehicles in the X-37 series in 1999, with the first X-37 drone entering service in 2010. Now managed by the US Air Force Space ...

Based on NASA’s X-37 design, the unmanned OTV is designed for vertical launch to low Earth orbit altitudes where it can perform long-duration space technology experiments and tests. Commanded ...

The Boeing-built spacecraft has functioned as a testbed for Pentagon and NASA technologies since 2010. The spacecraft’s current mission, OTV-7, began in December with the goal of experimenting ...

The X-37B was developed between 1999 and 2003, after NASA tapped Boeing to develop a new orbital vehicle. Funding for the vehicle came from NASA ($109 million), the U.S. Air Force ($16 million ...