A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-6) launches from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on May 17, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The USSF-7 ...

If you spot a large streak of light in the sky this week, it’s not Santa’s sleigh or a Sidewinder missile going after a balloon. Instead it’s likely the U.S. military’s X-37B space plane taking off ...

Boeing's X-37B spaceplane, depicted here, is one product line the company says it could ramp up for the Pentagon's Golden Dome effort. (Boeing Space) Ten months into its latest and largely classified ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Thursday successfully launched the Pentagon’s secretive X-37B spacecraft after the mission was delayed for several weeks due to weather and other issues. SpaceX launched the ...

The X-37B is a small, unmanned reusable spaceplane flown by the U.S. Space Force that has quietly become one of the most closely watched platforms in orbit. -Launched on its eighth mission in August ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is poised for launch as soon as Wednesday night from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the US military's mysterious X-37B spaceplane is ...

A year after the U.S. military’s secretive X-37B set a record for spending more than 900 days in orbit, Space Force’s space plane is heading back to outer space. U.S. Space Force confirmed this week ...

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It’s an itty-bitty spaceplane, not quite 30 feet long and under 10 feet tall, with a pair of stubby wings and a rounded, bulldog-like nose. But despite its diminutive size — it looks like a miniature ...