WORLD: Space: Victus Nox launch; Classified Space Force strategy; New Deltas streamline feedback.
Space
The traditional ways of doing space acquisition must be reformed in order to add speed to our acquisitions to meet our priorities.
The U.S. Space Force will officially activate its European component in just over a month, U.S. European Command said Oct. 31. U.S. Space Forces Europe and Africa, which will be dubbed SPACE-EURAF, will stand up on Dec. 8 and become the fourth Space Force component ...
The Space Development Agency added 38 more satellites to its growing list of contract awards on Oct. 30, with the agency agreeing to a $732 million deal with Northrop Grumman. The satellites will be part of the Tranche 2 Transport Layer of the Proliferated Warfighter Space ...
The Space Force stood up the 5th Space Warning Squadron and its Detachment 4 in Japan to oversee active/passive defense and attack operations for JTAGS, a new mission taken on from the Army.
The Space Development Agency has awarded a contract for 62 more satellites for its massive planned constellation in low-Earth orbit, an agency spokesperson confirmed Oct. 20. York Space Systems has been tapped to produce the satellites for the Alpha segment of the Tranche 2 Transport Layer. ...
The Rising Star, the Department of the Air Force’s only tugboat, guides cargo ships carrying vital supplies to keep Pituffik Space Base running through the dark Greenland winter.
Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman said an ongoing push to lower the classification levels of military space programs is “easier said than done” due to a tangle of overlapping policies and laws.
Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman likened the record-breaking launch of a satellite last month to when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, saying it has implications for how quickly the Space Force can respond to threats in the future.
