The Space Force’s X-37B space plane returned to Earth on Nov. 12, concluding its longest mission yet after nearly two and a half years in orbit. The orbital test vehicle touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility early in the morning of ...
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The Space Development Agency’s warfighter council will set requirements in March for the second large batch of satellites to join the Transport Layer of the agency’s National Defense Space Architecture, a planned constellation in low Earth orbit. A solicitation will then go out in the ...
The U.S. and Russia need to work together on a plan to de-orbit the International Space Station, a plan that a NASA advisory board said is needed both in case of an emergency—a growing likelihood—and to prepare for the station’s retirement.
International personnel will join the Space Force in December for its flagship training series Space Flag, just one new aspect of Space Training and Readiness Command’s slate of planned space-oriented exercises.
Space Force Brig. Gen. Dennis Bythewood took over U.S. Space Command’s Joint Task Force-Space Defense on Nov. 4, becoming only the second commander of the task force’s “Space Troopers” at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo.
USSF must take lead in JADC2; Improved Space Situational Awareness needed.
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The Air Force is shifting its approach from one focused on proofs of concepts and experiments to one based on developing an operational architecture and model.
The Space Force has a new Chief of Space Operations, and by the end of 2022, it will have established components within two more combatant commands and one sub-unified combatant command. The first component, for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, will stand up Nov. 22. Then will ...
