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In this week’s Space Force news, the DoD clarifies its Tenets for Responsible Behavior in Space while Raytheon and General Dynamics cash in — but the brightest future may await wireless services providers, who got a nice teaser from the … Read More

This week in Space Force–centric news, the USSF sees the future — and it is commercial. Space Systems Command’s Space Mobility ’23 conference started the week with some dazzling visions of commercial–military technology beginning with the AFRL Rocket Cargo program. … Read More

The buzzword in this week’s Space Force news: Politics. As certain provisions within the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act become active, the USSF and top–level politicians are acting accordingly. Last week came a resurrection of a Space National Guard bill … Read More

Space Force–centric news this week was mostly entirely swamped by a single story — and not quite the sort of story that makes for good publicity. The week began with a diesel fuel spillage at the Maui Space Surveillance Complex … Read More

The business of the US Space Force is … politics? Well, it was in part last week as the fight about the Trump Administration era decision to relocate Space Command headquarters spilled over into confirmation hearings for DoD nominees. Also, … Read More

Here’s an early trend to follow in 2023: The incredible number of launches from Cape Canaveral scheduled throughout the year. The week began with the imagination–capturing Falcon Heavy putting a couple payloads in orbit — including the first–ever Space RCO … Read More

Ball Aerospace is creating a new satellite called Weather System Follow-on-Microwave (WSF-M) for the U.S. Space Force. The satellite will be used to monitor and gather data on ocean surface vector winds, tropical cyclone intensity and other environmental information. The U.S. … Read More

The US Space Force and its civilian partners began year 2023 in business–as–usual fashion: An Orion Space Syatems cubesat — launched via SpaceX, naturally — marked an important milestone in the collection of meteorological data., while Raytheon is getting to … Read More

It’s that time again: Time to take stock of the year gone by with an eye to the future. Year 2022 was quite eventful for America’s newest military service from top to bottom as physical and personnel infrastructure continues to … Read More

The Space Force is keeping busy to close out the year, winning some attention in national and international media this week. Both the formal establishment of US Space Forces Korea and a launch of the joint NASA/French Space Agency topographical … Read More

Tis the season— to pass the last legislation of the year while looking forward to the next.This past week saw not only the passage of a compromise text on the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act but also a key United … Read More

The Space Force made moves and news globally and locally this week, with the activation of the USSF’s 2nd international-focused command activated; the final final decision on the ostensibly done deal bringing SPACECOM headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama; comments from Gen. … Read More

The Thanksgiving holiday kept most news at a minimum last week, even for the nation’s military services but while the holiday was enjoyed at home, Space Force officials were thinking globally, with establishment of the Space Forces Indo-Pacific as well … Read More

This week, the business of the Space Force is business. While the biggest USSF-centric news was in-house (namely, SPACECOM’s establishment of the Combined Joint Task Force-Space Operations) or on the federal level (the White House’s public release of the National … Read More

The Space Force hit a number of milestones in the past week, beginning with the assumption of command as Chief of Space Operations by Gen. B. Chance Saltzman – making him the second-ever USSF CSO. Meanwhile, the world’s biggest rocket … Read More