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 ...

On April 22, 2010, the U.S. Air Force launched the super-secret X-37B space plane on its first spaceflight. [ This space plane is also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle. It looks a lot like NASA'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 Orbital Test Vehicle ... security missions in space," said Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall. "This first-of-a-kind maneuver from the X-37B is an incredibly important milestone ...

The Space Force's top-secret X-37B spaceplane has landed after spending well over a year orbiting the Earth. The enigmatic space plane launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in December 2023.

On May 7, the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida got a loud surprise. One of the Air Force's two secret X-37B space planes announced its re-entry to Earth with a loud sonic boom.

The Pentagon's 'Space Warriors'", the development of the X-37B is part of the US Air Force's stated intention of maintaining "space superiority": This was followed up in 2012 with allegations that ...

Boeing's X-37B spaceplane ... Albon is C4ISRNET’s space and emerging technology reporter. She has covered the U.S. military since 2012, with a focus on the Air Force and Space Force.

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 ...