The U.S. Space Force has reached a crucial milestone, one that modernizes and enhances the command and control capabilities of the Defense Department's space wing. Nearly eight months after awarding ...

The U.S. Space Force is looking for advanced tech for space-based interceptors that can intercept ballistic missiles during their boost phase. Shown here, a view of Earth from the space shuttle ...

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 ...

A $1.5 trillion defense budget is a prudent and reasonable re-leveling of defense investment in historical proportion of GDP, ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket at liftoff during the NG-2 mission on Nov. 13. Credit: Blue Origin The U.S. Space Force is now taking proposals from new launch providers with rockets ready to fly by ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia Dec. 18 at 12:03 a.m. Eastern to test a new small-satellite architecture ...

U.S. Space Force Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy speaks Dec. 2, 2025, at the SpaceNews Icon Awards event in Washington, D.C. Credit: SpaceNews WASHINGTON — Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy, the U.S. Space Force’s top ...

The U.S. Space Force is planning a competition for commercial maneuverable satellites to support the military’s Maneuverable Geosynchronous (GEO) program. The Maneuverable GEO program reportedly seeks ...

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 ...

The Space Force is focusing on domain awareness for the first CASR mission area. Credit: ASBE/Getty Images The U.S. Space Force has set domain awareness as its initial—and for now, sole—mission area ...