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The X-37B is a bit like NASA's Space Shuttle — however it is uncrewed and launched as a payload as opposed to on the side of boosters. According to Boeing, the X-37B has a body and landing operation ...
The aerospace titan and U.S. Space Force on Tuesday said the spacecraft’s eighth mission, OTV-8, is scheduled to launch on ...
Just a few months after wrapping up its seventh test flight in orbit, Space Force’s experimental vehicle known as X-37B is ...
The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, an experimental spaceplane developed by Boeing, is preparing to launch its eighth mission for ...
The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the Boeing X-37B space plane on Aug. 21 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Fla.--an eighth X-37B ...
Built by Boeing Co.’s advanced research lab, Phantom Works, in Huntington Beach, Calif., the X-37 would be the first U.S. unmanned spacecraft to be launched into space and land on its own.
This mission will test the aircraft's GPS-denied navigation capabilities and hardened, laser-based communication systems.
Boeing has completed structural testing of the X-37 reusable spaceplane, after strengthening the structure to overcome a design flaw. NASA says an initial review of the test data "indicates that ...
Boeing Phantom Works president George Meullner says the X-37 would be launched on an expendable booster rather than deployed from the Space Shuttle payload bay as first planned. The 8.4m (27.5ft ...
After persistent prodding from U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), NASA in 2002 awarded Boeing a $301 million contract for two X-37 vehicles instead of one.
With that craft scheduled to be retired from service next year the U.S. Air Force's Boeing X-37 program is focused on demonstrating a next generation unmanned reusable spaceplane.