Space Operations Command has launched an office tasked with improving the procurement and integration of new technologies and capabilities into space operations. SpOC said Monday that the Space Acquisition and Integration Office
MoreThe U.S. Space Force’s 4th Space Operations Squadron has officially retired and placed in a disposal orbit a satellite designed to provide high-volume, secure voice and data communications, due to the culmination
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The U.S. Space Force has launched an operational component at the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in Hawaii, Defense One reported Tuesday. The new unit, which will be led by Brig. Gen. Anthony Mastalir,
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AFWERX, the Department of the Air Force’s innovation arm, is set to release a series of efforts representing its updated priorities aimed at expanding technology, workforce and capabilities across the U.S. Air
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U.S. Space Force Gen. B. Chance Saltzman officially succeeded the retiring Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, a three-time Wash100 awardee, as chief of space operations during the transition ceremony held Wednesday at Joint
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A satellite that Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems subsidiary built for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to help track hypersonic missiles and provide missile warning capabilities received “first light” data from
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SpaceX and Space Systems Command are preparing to launch later in October the U.S. Space Force-44 mission aboard the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket. USSF-44 will lift off from a launch complex at
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The U.S. Space Force and the Australian defense department issued an initial operational capability declaration Friday for a ground-based military telescope being used to monitor deep-space objects. The Space Surveillance Telescope is
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An analysis by The Aerospace Corp.’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy shows that the Biden administration sought a budget of $24.7 billion for the U.S. Space Force for fiscal year 2023,
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The Defense Intelligence Agency is looking into Russia and China’s use of space exploration as a military-civil integration strategy, according to DIA official John Huth. Huth, who serves as defense intelligence officer
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