Airmen from Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, joined fellow airmen at Kadena AB, Japan, and Navy and Marine Corps crews who gathered at Kadena on Aug. 7 for the third Joint Air and Sea Exercise 2005. Exercise participants include Kadena’s KC-135s, HH-60G Pave Hawks, E-3 AWACS, and the Navy’s USS Kitty Hawk Carrier Strike Group.
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.