Boeing X-37 ( X-37 Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV)), The Boeing Company, Chicago, Illinois, USA

This video is a compilation of military experts speculating on the X-37B space plane.

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The X-37B, a classified reusable space plane being developed by the U.S. Air Force, has broken its own record for endurance. This week it surpassed the previous mission of 469 days in orbit.

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Skywatcher Kevin Fetter of Brockville, Ontario in Canada shot this March 9, 2014 video of the U.S. military's X-37B space plane passing by the moon. The robotic US Air Force space plane surpassed 470 days in orbit, an endurance record, in March 2014.

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The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission 3 (OTV-3), the Air Force's unmanned, reusable space plane, landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:24 a.m. Oct. 17 .

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Watch the video to learn more about the Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV).

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) on its fifth mission.
SpaceX is targeting launch of OTV-5 from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The primary launch window opens on Thursday, September 7 at 9:50 a.m. EDT or 13:50 UTC, and closes at 2:55 p.m. EDT or 18:55 UTC.
A backup launch window is available on Friday, September 8.

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Boeing explains the benefits of the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) that the US Air Force uses for secretive missions. -- Latest Mission Hits 700 Days:

"X-37B Military Space Plane's Latest Mystery Mission Hits 700 Days"

by Mike Wall
August 7, 2019

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The X-37B is scheduled to lift off atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in May 2020.

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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 501 rocket launched the USSF-7 mission for the U.S. Space Force, the sixth flight of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-6), from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on 17 May 2020, at 13:14 UTC (09:14 EDT). Built by Boeing, X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is a reusable unmanned spacecraft. The mission was the 84th for an Atlas V launch vehicle and the 7th in the 501 configuration.
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Video footage Courtesy of United Launch Alliance/Photos Courtesy of Boeing/Photos Courtesy of United Launch Alliance

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The X-37B just launched on its sixth classified mission to space for the US Air Force. We run down what details we do know about the experiments it will be running.

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According to the U.S. Space Force, the Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on 7 March 2025, at 07:22 UTC (02:22 EST; 6 March, at 23:22 local time), ending its seventh mission (OTV-7/USSF-52) after over 434 days in space. During the mission, X-37B executed “a series of novel maneuvers, called aerobraking, to change its orbit around Earth and safely dispose of its service module components”.

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