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

The X-37B's most recent mission, known as OTV-7 (for "Orbital Test Vehicle-7"), saw the space plane launch atop a SpaceX ...

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.

Slamming the Aerobrakes The US military's top secret X-37B space plane, which has been orbiting the Earth since December 2023 ...

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

China's rapid advancement in space technology and the military integration of these capabilities marks a pivotal shift in ...

British author Samantha Harvey has claimed the 2024 Booker Prize with her book Orbital which is the first book set in space ...

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

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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 ...