'The U.S. military's highly secretive X-37B space plane just got a little less mysterious. This week, Boeing Space released a video detailing how the aerobraking procedure will work and why the X-37B ...

The U.S. military's X-37B space plane is about to begin a series of novel maneuvers, according to a rare official update on the spacecraft. The space plane has been conducting radiation-effect ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A spacecraft that will sniff for possible signs of life in the Martian atmosphere is nearly ready ...

A U.S. X-37B space plane is slated to test a new way of rapidly changing its orbit, part of the Space Force’s quest for fuel-sipping maneuverability. The spacecraft will experiment with aerobraking, ...

The decade of Venus is almost upon us. With three upcoming Venus missions planned from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), we’re on the cusp of learning more about our neighboring planet than ...

Artist's rendering of the X-37B conducting an aerobraking maneuver. Credit: Boeing Space The Pentagon’s X-37B spaceplane will begin executing a series of aerobraking maneuvers to change orbit in what ...

The US Space Force's secret-but-not-really-secret spaceplane will carry out a novel maneuver called aerobraking to change its orbit. Instead of using thrusters, the robotic spacecraft will dip into ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Ground controllers successfully fired the thrusters on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Aug. 30, bringing an end to a six-month-long aerobraking maneuver and placing the ...

This is a NASA NIAC phase 1 study to develop plasma magnetoshell aerobraking. Any breaking drag forces on the Magnetoshell will be three orders of magnitude larger than the aerodynamic forces on the ...

In a rare show of openness about the X-37B, Boeing Space released a video detailing how the space plane's aerobraking maneuvers help change its orbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...