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 ...

In an effort to reinforce its identity as the youngest military branch, the U.S. Space Force is adopting an official naming scheme for its mission areas, including drawing from the Norse pantheon for ...

A little more than a century ago, the US Army Air Service came up with a scheme for naming the military’s multiplying fleet of airplanes. The 1924 aircraft designation code produced memorable names ...

A new U.S. Space Force unit has been activated at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. The branch's leader said the unit is necessary to protect U.S. space-based capabilities like GPS and ...

Gen. Shawn Bratton, the Space Force’s vice chief of space operations, spoke with SpaceNews’ Sandra Erwin as part of an event focused on the Space Force 2040 at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg ...

The Space Force must expand in order to accomplish its mission, says the service’s new Objective Force plan, a 100-page document outlining a vision for its structure and doctrine through 2040. “The ...

Recent analysis by Reeves in the Mitchell Institute’s “Charting a Path to Space Superiority: The Cross-Domain Imperative” identifies the need for centralized command and control (C2) of counterspace ...

Space Forces Southern was designated for activation on Wednesday during a ceremony at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Located near Tucson, Arizona, the base’s activation represents an integral part of ...

L3Harris Technologies has secured a $150 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to modernize critical ground systems under the Maintenance of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities, ...

Recent analysis by Reeves in the Mitchell Institute’s “Charting a Path to Space Superiority: The Cross-Domain Imperative” identifies the need for centralized command and control (C2) of counterspace ...