A US Space Force test plane is set to make history as it prepares to perform unprecedented manoeuvres that will see it brush the Earth's atmosphere. The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle first went to ...
The Pentagon is usually scant on any details about the X-37B, its top secret space plane that flies up to 500 miles above Earth. But the Department of Defense has now revealed that the unmanned ...
"I admit I did not expect this to work," Harvard astronomer and space tracker Jonathan McDowell tweeted. The booster measures a whopping 233 feet in height and weighs over 600,000 pounds without ...
Here’s how it works. A secret, experimental space plane will be performing a new kind of specialized brake maneuver as it returns to Earth’s atmosphere, the U.S. Space Force announced.
No, the sixth and newest branch of the U.S. military is grounding the reusable robotic space plane. Rather, OTV-7 will be employed in aerobraking maneuvers to change its orbit around Earth.
A 13-year-old created a 3-D printed desktop satellite tracker and talked with astronauts on the International Space Station. A 13-year-old created a 3-D printed desktop satellite tracker and ...
The plane took off on its seventh mission at the end of last year, being carried into space by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket that took off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.
The US Space Force has made a not-so-secret announcement about the top-secret X-37B space plane. In a rare public statement about the spacecraft's mission, officials have said X-37B is set to ...
How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Monday, Oct. 14, with sky charts, ...
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14/CBS4) — A plane crashed during the second annual air and space expo in Las Cruces. One person died as a result of the crash, New Mexico State Police confirmed.