The U.S. military's classified mini space shuttle has returned to Earth after circling the world for 434 days.

On March 7, 2025, at 02:22 am EST, the U.S. Space Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 (OTV-7) successfully deorbited and ...

A Boeing X-37B miniature space shuttle sent into space by the U.S. military successfully returned from the Earth’s orbit on ...

While conducting experiments in a "highly elliptical orbit ... iterations to achieve a more aerodynamic design than the Space Shuttle orbiter. It was initially intended to launch from the ...

(AP) — The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on ... just military experiments. Its predawn touchdown at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California was not ...

With the prolonged orbital flight, Space Force engineers were testing the ship’s “space domain awareness technology” through a bevy of experiments ... NASA space shuttle in that it is ...

(AP) — The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on ... just military experiments. Its predawn touchdown at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California was not ...

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