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 landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This unmanned spaceplane ...

Mission seven launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy on December 28, 2023, taking off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's ...

The X-37B spacecraft’s latest mission was shorter than the last but tried several new maneuvers and approaches during its ...

The X-37B spaceplane touched down on Runway 12 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 11:22 pm local time Thursday (2 ...

The 29-foot-long X-37B landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California last Friday (Mar 7) at 2:22 am local time.

While not nearly as long, the Space Force acknowledges that OTV-7 saw, “the first launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket to a Highly Elliptical Orbit.” Throughout the more than year-long missi ...

Dubbed X-37B or the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), it is the code name for the spacecraft which is right on its seventh ...

The spacecraft is flown into space with a launch vehicle, in this mission’s case a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket, then autonomously re-enters the Earth. The vehicle can then be refurbished and re ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches USSF-52 carrying a U.S. Space Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A. [Credit: U.S. Space Force] At the time of its ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky departs London by helicopter after attending a summit with European leaders. He is en route to Sandringham for a private meeting with King Charles III to ...

The spacecraft has now landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, 434 days after its launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in December 2023. This mission thus ended much ...