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 ...

Can one, unmanned spaceplane spend more than 4,200 days in orbit, peaceably making records and shaping the future of military and civilian space operations? The Boeing-produced X-37B Orbital Test ...

The mysterious Space Force space plane is headed back to the Florida launch pad. The Boeing-built X-37B is ready to see its eighth mission less than six months after completing its last. Currently ...

The U.S. Space Force will launch the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on Aug. 21, 2025, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The U.S. Space Force announced that it will launch the eighth mission of the X-37B ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off late Thursday, propelling a reusable X-37B Space Force rocket plane into space on a classified long-duration mission. It was the eighth such flight since the ...

It won’t have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force is set to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft — which looks like a miniature space shuttle — back for a long-duration mission to orbit during a late ...

The X-37B space plane, launched by SpaceX, is scheduled to lift off from Kennedy Space Center. The Falcon 9 rocket booster will land at Cape Canaveral, causing a sonic boom. This mission, ...

SpaceX launches a Boeing-made X-37B space plane on a U.S. Space Force mission with its return date undisclosed. Photo: Jennifer Briggs/Zuma Press A Pentagon spaceplane called X-37B zoomed into orbit ...

Should the eighth mission scheduled for August 21 occur as planned, it is believed that the X-37B spacecraft will spend more than a year in orbit. In May, the People’s Republic of China demonstrated a ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Aug. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boeing [NYSE: BA]-built X 37B Orbital Test Vehicle launched today on its eighth mission, lifting off at 11:50PM ET aboard a SpaceX Falcon ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off Aug. 21 from Kennedy Space Center carrying USSF-36, the eighth mission of the X-37B orbital test vehicle. Credit: SpaceX The U.S. Space Force and SpaceX launched the X-37B ...