A US company is aiming for ... Athena, blasted off in a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:16 pm (0016 GMT Thursday) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. If all goes well, it will touch down ...

For the first time, we’re seeing an image from the record-breaking US military space plane while in Earth orbit. Over the weekend, the US Space Force shared a photo taken by the spacecraft X-37B ...

The X-37B took off on Dec. 28, 2023. While Space Force is open about launch dates and the final length in time for each of the space plane’s missions ... Force and the U.S. military as a ...

The Air Force has taken the lead in the friendly competition among the U.S. military branches ... Falcon 9 rocket takes off from the launchpad. Burks currently serves as Space Launch Delta 30 ...

Credit: Boeing Space The US Space ... kind to pull off. The Space Force teased those maneuvers back in October 2024, when it explained that aerobraking would allow the space plane to use the ...

The photo was taken by a camera onboard the space plane while orbiting high above the African continent. The vehicle has been in orbit for over a year now, having jetted off for its seventh ...