Launch recap: Live updates from USSF-36 mission, which launched at 11:50 p.m. Aug. 21 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. Original story: The mysterious Space Force space plane is scheduled to ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried the X-37B Space Force space plane back into orbit late on Thursday, August 21-- marking the mysterious uncrewed vehicle's eighth mission. The mission, known as USSF-36 ...

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 ...

A U.S. military space plane, known as the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, blasted off on Thursday night aboard a Falcon 9 launch provided by SpaceX, carrying out a classified mission in orbit. The ...

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 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 ...

While many of the experiments it will conduct in the coming months are classified, the Space Force has identified space-based laser communications and quantum sensing as two of its focus areas.

What if the world’s most sophisticated spaceplane has a navigation system that is not reliant on GPS at all? Thursday evening late, in weather that improved as Hurricane Erin had moved north into 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 ...

How the money for this classified project will be spent is unknown. U.S. President Trump's "One, Big Beautiful Bill Act," H.R. 1 includes $1 billion for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) X-37B military ...

Auroras on Earth are a stunning sight to behold — and a rare one at that from Florida and most of the continental U.S. Lucky enough to have witnessed a phenomenon that in the Northern Hemisphere is ...