The Space Development Agency awarded contracts for the final 20 satellites in the second tranche of its proliferated low-Earth orbit constellation on Aug. 16, setting the stage for hundreds of satellites to launch in the next three years or so.
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The Space Force isn’t quite ready to take full responsibility for recruiting its own Guardians yet, but the service is preparing a detachment within the Air Force Recruiting Service to build a strategy for doing so, Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force John F. ...
Less than nine months after standing up, U.S. Space Forces Europe and Africa got a new commander Aug. 13 when Brig. Gen. Jacob Middleton succeeded Col. Max Lantz—an especially noteworthy move for given the Space Force’s small pool of general officers and the service’s efforts ...
When a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., on Aug. 9, it carried to orbit a historic collaboration between the Space Force and a foreign country—two satellites procured by Space Norway hosting USSF payloads for Arctic communications.
A Chinese rocket carrying the first satellites of a communications constellation meant to rival Starlink broke up in low-Earth orbit, U.S. Space Command confirmed—creating hundreds of pieces of debris and continuing a series of worrying incidents, experts said.
U.S. Space Command needs “space fires,” its commander said this week, the latest indication that the Pentagon is growing more comfortable talking about offensive weapons in space.
The Space Force hopes to finish calibrating and operationalize its newest weather satellite this fall, the head of Space Systems Command’s space sensing directorate said. Beyond that, Col. Robert Davis hinted that the future of space-based environmental monitoring may largely come from commercial satellites and ...
The Space Force is offering up to $180,000 for Guardians in some career fields to reenlist, an $80,000 increase over previous years. The move is part of a wider Department of the Air Force effort to make reenlisting easier and offer more incentives to do ...
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