The Air Force had expected to conclude its investigation into the B-52 weapons misadventure last week, but The Shreveport Times reports that it will take a while longer. Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne was at Minot AFB, N.D., last week for an update on the incident. An Air Force spokeswoman told the Times that the investigation could “continue for at least the next several weeks.”
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.