Author Archives: Miles Inada

Science, politics and finance: Three arenas in which the modern military must exist, and all three poked into the Space Force–centric news headlines this week. While a wide–ranging study revealed that the US’ space domain awareness needs some improvement, the … Read More

Two stories dominated the entire cycle of Space Force–centric news this week, one in the mainstream, the other in military quarters. The former was all about the impressive completion of Victus Nox, which made for not only quite a successful … Read More

The key word in this week Space Force–centric news is “words.” While the Silent Barker satellite finally got off the ground on its way to geosynchronous orbit, the real fireworks may have come from speechmaking and memo writing. Early in … Read More

In this week’s Space Force news, the service moves forward in planetary and orbital defense. US Space Forces Korea participated in its first–ever military drills on the Korean peninsula, two big– name subcontractors are readying for the revolutionary rapid– deployment … Read More

If you thought last week’s Space Force news was full of business– centric items, check out this edition of the column for seven days’ worth of contract awards which literally dominated USSF–centered news. The headliner among headliners was of course … Read More

The past week, the business of the Space Force was mostly in the AI business, as a number of companies announced new contracts with the USSF and/or the launching of new R&D projects set to level–up the defense and development … Read More

The Women’s World What? For those into Space Force–centric news, the ultimate in competition took place this past week: Namely, the 4th annual Hack–A–Sat competition based in Las Vegas but centered on low Earth orbit. Testing USSF cybersecurity on an … Read More

Amid the dog days of summer, at least one piece of Space Force news grabbed headlines across media from mainstream to the military–focused, namely the Biden Administration’s decision, some 2½ years in the making, on the permanent location of US … Read More

Here’s to hoping readers of Space Force news dig on politics because the politicos ruled last week. President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Frank Kendall put forth some nominations to key USSF posts, but no one gets reassigned or promoted … Read More

The Fourth of July four–day weekend curbed the Space Force– related news output slightly this week, but a few items still managed to capture some public imagination. The talk given by SPACECOM Deputy Director Lt. Gen. Shaw at a Mitchell … Read More

It’s not all bad news for the Space Force this week, but last Monday’s release of a policy paper by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies truly paced a pall over USSF–centric media for the week’s remainder. Notes on this … Read More

Well, it had to happen: After a few action–packed weeks’ worth of Space Force–centric news, the dog days of summer kicked in to deny much in the way of headline stories. On the other hand, when the lead features the … Read More

The Space Force and USSF leadership got media coverage of all sorts this weekend, from webinars to DC–oriented print media to cable–TV news. USSF vice CSO Gen. David Thompson appeared at two events to speak at length about the service’s … Read More

The Space Force news runs from the proverbial sea to shining sea this week, with items from all areas. On the “Space Coast” of Florida, ULA Vulcan booster rockets successfully passed a key test for the future of commercial space … Read More

In this week’s Space Force news, it’s all about economics. The placement of Space Force units of operations in three states has congresspeople there touting boosts to the local economy. Meanwhile, a couple of big contacts were awarded to longtime … Read More