Although it's a new move for the X-37B, aerobraking has been used by NASA and other space agencies for years. The technique ...

Here’s how it works. That U.S. Space Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-7) has silently slipped past one-year of flight time. The craft is engaged in performing aerobrake maneuvers ...

“This important mission will host more experiments than any prior X-37B flight, including two NASA experiments,” then-Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett said in May 2020. “One is a ...

The USSF-52 mission is set to take off on December 7. The Falcon Heavy rocket will usher the X-37B spaceship into space from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A report from the U.S. Space ...

WSJ’s Shelby Holliday looks at what the U.S.’s Boeing-made X-37B spacecraft is capable of doing, and how these launches underscore the intensifying space race between superpowers. Photo ...