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B’s role is not the sort of thing to capture the public’s imagination. Even so, the plane will serve an important function in ...
While the Starliner faces challenges, Boeing’s other space venture, the X-37B, remains shrouded in mystery. -Developed with funding from NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and Boeing, the X-37B is a ...
With its high speed and maneuverability, the Space Force’s secretive X-37B spacecraft could be a critical component in a future space-based missile defense for the United States. Two seemingly ...
The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) has been shrouded in mystery since its maiden flight in 2011. Designed by Boeing and operated by the U.S. Space Force (USSF), this remotely operated ...
As the second flight of the second X-37B vehicle, the stated purpose of mission was to test a Hall-effect thruster (HET) – a special type of ion thruster that NASA hopes to use on future satellites.
L3Harris and BAE Systems believe there is a strong market for the EA-37B beyond existing orders from the United States and Italy. The EA-37B Compass Call, based on the Gulfstream G550 and ...
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 ...
The State Department last year approved a $680 million Compass Call sale to Italy, and other nations are interested in the ...
A U.S. Military X-37B spaceplane blasted off from Florida on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Thursday. The Pentagon disclosed few details about the classified mission but said the X-37B would be ...
The Space Force's top-secret X-37B spaceplane has landed after spending well over a year orbiting the Earth. The enigmatic space plane launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in December 2023.