A secret space plane is set to embark on its new mission. The X-37B orbital test vehicle of the U.S. Space Force will fly on its eighth mission on August 21, 2025. The plane is set to lift off from ...

The X-37B, the US Space Force’s secretive space plane, will soon take flight again. On Monday, the Space Force announced that it will fly the small, Space Shuttle–shaped vehicle on the program’s ...

The U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane is set to launch its eighth mission from Kennedy Space Center. The mission, designated USSF-36, will focus on testing laser communications and a new navigation ...

The Invictus project is leveraging tech that the now-defunct British company Reaction Engines developed for a huge space plane called Skylon. Europe doesn't want to be left out of the space plane ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) recently jumped into the burgeoning space-plane sector, announcing funding for a new research program called Invictus, which will develop a hypersonic space plane ...