Airmen from Air Force Special Operations Command’s 17th Special Operations Squadron who returned recently from a Southwest Asia rotation took time to visit six classes of first, second, and third graders on the Japanese island of Okinawa. The airmen, who are based at Kadena AB, Japan, wanted to thank the students for writing and sending cards to them during their first deployment to SWA. (Read more here.)
The Space Force wants to launch hundreds of satellites in the coming years—and use contractor spacecraft to sweep them out of orbit later. The service’s Space Development Agency and the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit announced a trio of preliminary contracts for their Deorbit-as-a-Service project on Aug. 14, to Firefly Aerospace,…