An F-15 from Eglin AFB, Fla., flying out of Nellis AFB, Nev., lost its canopy a few minutes after taking off about 10:18 a.m. April 4, according to the Associated Press news service. The pilot flew the fighter back to Nellis, landing safely. A search was underway for the missing canopy.
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.