It has been nearly six years since the United States Space Force was established, when President Donald Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020 into law. The sixth and ...

The Space Force regularly tracks some 40,000 objects in space. Crucially for the US military, it can see targets on land as ...

Naming weapon systems to give insight into its purpose or the branch’s culture is not new within the U.S. military. (DVIDS) The U.S. Space Force released names of space weapon systems to better link ...

The US Space Force announced it has awarded Boeing a $2.8 billion contract to build two critical defense satellites. These satellites will “support Initial Operational Capability for strategic ...

Congress wants to know why the Space Force needs a special operations component command, and wants answers before any taxpayer money is spent on creating it. The then-head of U.S. Special Operations ...

China remains America’s top threat in space and is catching up to the U.S. military’s space capabilities at an “incredible pace,” a top Space Force general said. Here, a visitor takes photos of ...

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The Space Force is interested in two new anti-satellite weapons: the “Meadowlands” and the “Remote Monitor Terminal,” both of which are built to jam enemy satellite communications. The sixth and ...

U.S. Air National Guard Lt. Col. Shumpei Fujimura, 109th Electromagnetic Warfare Squadron director of operations, leads a formation during a squadron activation ceremony Nov. 2, 2024, at Joint Base ...

Integrate software is used by the Space Force for project coordination. Credit: Integrate WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force awarded a five-year $25 million contract to Integrate, a Seattle-based ...