Called aerobraking, the technique allows the highly classified craft to change orbit without using propellant—and some are ...

B, Boeing Space released a video detailing how the space plane's aerobraking maneuvers help change the spacecraft's orbit.

In a cutting-edge milestone for orbital innovation, the U.S. military's secretive X-37B space plane has begun advanced ...

X-37B started executing a series of aerobraking maneuvers to change from a highly elliptical orbit to a lower orbit.

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

Starfish Space has raised $29 million to support the development of its first three Otter orbital servicing vehicles.

The International Space Station - a blazing symbol of humanity’s destiny to move out across the cosmos - must be saved from ...

As detailed in a Boeing Space video, the plane has started "performing advanced ... our apogee one pass at a time until we get to the orbital regime that we want to be in," Boeing engineer John ...

Boeing engineer John Ealy said: 'When we aerobrake, we utilize atmospheric drag to effectively step down our apogee one pass at a time until we get to the orbital regime that we want to be in.

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