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 ...

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.

GOLDEN, Colo. — After nearly seven months of flight, the U.S. Air Force’s latest X-37 robotic space plane is nearing a milestone in its secret mission in Earth orbit as it chalks up distance ...

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.

The X-37B is only partially so: everybody knows it's there, but few know what it is doing. The X-37B is a design by aerospace giant Boeing and it has been in the news, on and off, since 2010.

MOSCOW, April 23. /TASS/. US Boeing X-37 orbital spacecraft may carry reconnaissance tools or weapons of mass destruction, Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said on Saturday.

Dick Cervisi, X-37 program manager for Boeing Phantom Works. “Wind tunnel tests designed to verify the aerodynamic design and performance from Mach 10 to landing speeds are 93 percent complete.

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 ...