WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has completed upgrades to the Global Position System’s ground segment that will allow it to partially use a new military GPS signal known as M-code, the service announced Aug. 6. While the newanti-spoofing, anti-jamming, encrypted M-code signal...
The establishment of the United States Space Force in December 2019 initiated a wide public discourse on the militarization of space. What much of that discourse failed to acknowledge was that space had been militarized long before the popular crewed space programs of the 1960s. This history of ...
President Donald Trump announced plans for the Pentagon to create aUnited States Space Force, earlier this week. Some are more enthusiastic than others about a new branch of the armed forces.Supporters chanted, “Space Force!” at a Trump rally two days ago. Astronaut and anti-gun activist Ma...
(Image credit: SpaceX via X) Today's mission was the seventh launch and landing for this particular booster, according to a SpaceX mission description. We don't know much about USSF-124. The Space Force remained mum about it until this morning, when it emailed out a statement saying ...
the developers of vLEO anticipate that smaller satellites with faster mobility and larger numbers will not only be more difficult to hit by enemies, but also bring a "redundancy" advantage.According to the Air Force Space Command, the Air Force has been working to manage small facilities and ...
Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander blasted off Monday from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, then successfully separated from its rocket. Just hours later, though, Astrobotic reported an inability to orient Peregrine's solar panel...
Space Force on Thursday (Nov. 5), marking the first launch in nearly two weeks here on the Space Coast. One of the company's two-stage Falcon 9 rockets blasted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station here at 6:24 p.m. EST (2324 GMT), carrying the ...
It’s probably not wise for the DoD to put all its chips on that dynamic existing for any future conflicts it’s in, even if it does have a Space Force working to ensure that its orbital assets remain useful in a contested space environment. ...
Pointing to growing threats and competition from Russia and China, the White House on Thursday announced ambitious plans to create the U.S. Space Force as a sixth, separate military warfighting service by 2020.
Space capabilities give the US and its allies unprecedented advantages in national decision-making, military operations, and homeland security. While a handful of private companies have driven the most recent space exploration efforts, there are ongoing discussions for establishing the Space Force as the...