T he unmanned X-37B shuttle, owned by the U.S. Air Force, has been in orbit for over a year. Although the tests conducted are classified, the Pentagon has disclosed that it is evaluating the ...

“This important mission will host more experiments than any prior X-37B flight, including two NASA experiments,” then-Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett said in May 2020. “One is a ...

supported by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, conducted radiation effect experiments and tested Space Domain Awareness technologies. X-37B/OTV-7 is also referred to as United States Space ...

supported by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, conducted radiation effect experiments and tested Space Domain Awareness technologies. X-37B/OTV-7 is also referred to as United States Space ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was no doubt that the US Air Force's X-37B was going to break its own record for time spent in orbit, but it's now clear by how much. The mysterious Boeing-made space plane has landed at ...

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 ...

As of late August, the Chinese UOV (unmanned orbital vehicle) is still in orbit. The Chinese version of the U.S. Air Force X-37B UOV lands at a 5,000-meter (16,000 foot) landing strip near their Lop ...