The Boeing X-37, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), is a reusable robotic spacecraft. It is boosted into space by a launch vehicle, re-enters Earth's atmosphere, and lands as a spaceplane.

Mar 14, 2022 · At NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St Louis, Mississippi, drones are becoming a go-to resource for use on difficult and potentially dangerous jobs, helping to save time and costs. One might encounter drone technology as a toy.

Dec 12, 2024 · The Drones and You page is NASA’s vision for the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Mission which is to help emerging aviation markets to safely develop an air transportation system that moves people and cargo between places previously not served or underserved by aviation – local, regional, intraregional, urban – using revolutionary new ...

Feb 27, 2025 · Micro Nova Hopper: Funded by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate Tipping Point initiative, Intuitive Machines’ Micro Nova hopper, Grace, is designed to enable high-resolution surveying of the lunar surface under its flight path. This autonomous propulsive drone aims to deploy to the surface and hop into a nearby crater to survey the ...

Nov 12, 2022 · -- The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6), the U.S. Space Force’s unmanned, reusable spaceplane, successfully deorbited and landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility on Nov. 12, 2022, at 05:22 a.m.

Various national space agencies, including NASA, are engaged in research to develop space drones for exploratory missions beyond Earth. Notable advancements include the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, a reusable drone capable of autonomous flight and landing, and NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which successfully conducted multiple flights on Mars.

Nov 15, 2024 · 1. NASA’s ingenuity helicopter on Mars. One of the most exciting recent developments in space drones is NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter, which was sent to Mars aboard the Perseverance rover in 2021. Ingenuity is the first powered flight of a drone on another planet.

Nov 25, 2024 · SpaceX’s Crew-10 astronauts are set to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft on March 12. But in many ways, their journey to orbit started on Wednesday.

Apr 18, 2024 · NASA's delayed Dragonfly drone mission to Saturn's largest moon Titan is on track to launch in July 2028, the space agency confirmed late Tuesday (April 16).

May 5, 2024 · In 2020, NASA's Perseverance rover launched for Mars with a stowaway: a tiny drone, created by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The drone, named Ingenuity, was...