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A mysterious spacecraft has been orbiting the Earth for the past 720 days, and only the US Air Force knows why. This is the fifth mission of the X-37B space plane, an uncrewed and solar-powered military drone. The Orbital Test Vehicle 5 (OTV-5) mission launc…

SpaceX has just successfully passed its final test for its Starhopper test prototype. Launched at Boca Chica, Texas, the Starhopper flew to an altitude of 500 feet (150 meters), where it stayed hovering for almost a minute. Equipped with a single new gen Sp…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption The squat Starhopper flew with one Raptor engine The American rocket company SpaceX conducted a successful flight of its "Starhopper" testbed on Tuesday. The vehicle lifted 150m into the air, moved sideways and then gen…

Tuesday evening, from its launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas, SpaceX conducted its second ever free flight of Starhopper, the test prototype for its future Starship vehicle. Starhopper hopped about 490 feet (149 meters) into the airover eight times higher t…

In March 2010, back before it ever flew, the X-37B posed for this picture on a runway in Titusville, Florida. Boeing We know what it looks like: a cute little space shuttle. We know where it is: in orbit around Earth. We know who sent it there: the US Air…

The U.S. Air Forces Boeing X-37B spaceplane broke a record yesterday for the most amount of time in orbit around the Earth. But we still dont know when the uncrewed plane is going to land or even what its doing up there. All of the details about the X-37B mis…

Photo credit: U.S. DoD - Getty Images From Popular Mechanics The U.S. Air Forces secretive space plane has once again broken its own record, spending a 716 days in orbit and counting. The fifth mission of the X-37B space plane is the longest yet, overtaking…

A small community of people at the southern tip of Texas just received what some of its residents are calling a "shocking" and "concerning" warning about SpaceX's upcoming launch attempt of a Mars rocket ship prototype. Residents told Business Insider a count…

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites for broadband internet access are beginning to display signs of real potential. Recently, Amazon chief Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin pulled back the curtain on its space intentions by announcing Project Kuiper, a 3,236-satellite con…

CSF representatives note the irony of the situation since the organization and its companies were the ones to ask for changes in the first place. Its members even made recommendations for how to update the rules. "The FAA took them, and they went and started …