A not-so-secret, secret reusable spaceplane operated by the United States Space Force is scheduled to lift off for its eighth mission on Thursday, Aug. 21, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Florida's Space Coast has become known for its rocket launches, which has notably increased in the past few years. Aside from the "ooh, ahh" factor of a launch virtually morning, noon or night − with ...

A U.S. spaceplane will head to the heavens next month to test a quantum sensor that could help navigation in orbit without GPS, and to demonstrate new methods of space-based communications, the Space ...

It's been a while since the X-37B spaceplane has been in the news. After it completed its seventh flight into space some six month ago, the aircraft disappeared from our radars, heading back to ...

Less than six months after concluding a year-plus mission in orbit, the Space Force’s top-secret X-37B space plane is gearing up for its eighth mission in just over 15 years. As the Orlando Sentinel ...

Officially designated the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), the X-37 program began in 1999 under NASA as a testbed for reusable spacecraft technologies, ie., advanced thermal protection, autonomous reentry, ...

Why Space Force is launching a not-so-secret, secret military spaceplane A not-so-secret, secret reusable spaceplane operated by the United States Space Force is scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy ...