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 ...

Just a few months after wrapping up its seventh test flight in orbit, Space Force’s experimental vehicle known as X-37B is ...

The aerospace titan and U.S. Space Force on Tuesday said the spacecraft’s eighth mission, OTV-8, is scheduled to launch on ...

This mission will test the aircraft's GPS-denied navigation capabilities and hardened, laser-based communication systems.

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.

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 ...

Boeing bills the X-37 as, of course, a replacement and an improvement over NASA’s space shuttle orbiter, at least when it comes to carrying experiments to and from low-Earth orbit.

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.

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 ...

The X-37B program has been an orphan of sorts, bouncing since its inception in 1999 between several federal agencies, NASA among them. It now resides under the Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office.

After an experimental test mission lasting over 220 days, the Boeing X-37B successfully de-orbited and landed safely at Vandenberg Air Force Base last week, making it the United States' first ...