One of the US Space Force’s (sort of) secret space planes known as the X-37B is gearing up to shift its orbit in a big way. According to an official October 10 announcement from the USSF, the ...

'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 ...

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, ...

When you put your hand out the window of a moving car, you feel a force pushing against you called drag. This force opposes a moving vehicle, and it's part of the reason why your car naturally slows ...

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 ...

There are plenty of crazy ideas for missions in the space exploration community. Some are just better funded than others. One of the early pathways to funding the crazy ideas is NASA's Institute for ...