The X-37B is a bit like NASA's Space Shuttle — however it is uncrewed and launched as a payload as opposed to on the side of boosters. According to Boeing, the X-37B has a body and landing operation ...

The aerospace titan and U.S. Space Force on Tuesday said the spacecraft’s eighth mission, OTV-8, is scheduled to launch on August 21 from Boeing’s facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The ...

Just a few months after wrapping up its seventh test flight in orbit, Space Force’s experimental vehicle known as X-37B is ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., July 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Boeing [NYSE: BA]-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is ...

The U.S. Space Force will launch the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on Aug. 21, 2025, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The U.S. Space Force announced that ...

The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the Boeing X-37B space plane on Aug. 21 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Fla.--an eighth X-37B ...

The mission will test laser communications using commercial satellite networks and the use of quantum inertial sensors in GPS ...

Should the eighth mission scheduled for August 21 occur as planned, it is believed that the X-37B spacecraft will spend more than a year in orbit.

It’s unclear how long OTV-8 will last, but if past missions are any indication, the unpiloted plane will remain above the planet for a while. X-37B’s most recent mission launched on December 28, 2023 ...

The eighth mission is set to take off on August 21, 2025, from Kennedy Space Center when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will send the spaceplane into orbit. Michelle Parker, vice president of Boeing Space ...

This mission will test the aircraft's GPS-denied navigation capabilities and hardened, laser-based communication systems.

As for how that $1 billion would be spent, and when the next X-37B would depart, Space.com reached out to the space plane's builder, Boeing.