On Aug. 21, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried the Boeing-built X-37B Space Force space plane to orbit on its eighth mission.

A U.S. military space plane, known as the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, blasted off on Thursday night aboard a Falcon 9 launch provided by SpaceX, carrying out a classified mission in orbit. Mission ...

The dramatic footage clearly shows the boost-back burn of the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage.

SpaceX is planning to launch an X-37B military space plane on a Falcon 9 rocket late Thursday night from the Kennedy Space ...

The launch is set for Thursday, August 21, at 11:50 p.m. ET. Catch the action live right here. The U.S. Space Force’s ...

The X-37B has launched atop multiple rockets from different providers. The spaceplane’s first four flights, starting in 2010, were launched atop an Atlas V 501, configured with a five-meter fairing ...

Live updates from USSF-36 mission, which launched at 11:50 p.m. Aug. 21 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A.