The U.S. military’s highly secretive X-37B space plane just got a little less mysterious. In a rare show of openness about the space plane’s operations, Boeing and the U.S. Space Force released a statement last month explaining that the X-37B would soon begin a series of “aerobraking” maneuvers to begin lowering its orbit and safely […]
One of the US Space Force’s (sort of) secret space planes known as the X-37B is gearing up to shift its orbit in a big way. According to an official October 10 announcement from the USSF, the Boeing-built experimental aircraft has begun performing a series of maneuvers known as “aerobraking” that will see it change […]
“When it’s close to the Earth, it’s close enough to the atmosphere to turn where it is,” she said. “Which means our adversaries don’t know—and that happens on the far side of the Earth from our adversaries—where it’s going to come up next. And we know that that drives them nuts. And I’m really glad […]
