Air Forces Central announced Sunday that a USAF MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle had crashed in southern Afghanistan about 11:35 a.m. local time. The release from Bagram AB, Afghanistan offered no further information on the incident. It said the Air Force would launch an investigation.
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.