The name of SSgt. Andrew Brunn, an Air National Guardsman and New York City firefighter who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was emblazoned with honor on the entryway of the Air Force’s Combined Air Operations Center in Qatar. The commemorization took place on Dec. 22. Brunn was a member of one of the first ladder companies to reach the World Trade Center. He and his team was trying to evacuate injured civilians when the building collapsed.
As commercial companies, universities, and research agencies develop new approaches to operating satellites at lower and lower altitudes, the Space Force is taking notice and considering how it might leverage those advances in both the near and long term.