The Space Force’s main arm in the Pacific got a new leader July 25, as Brig. Gen. Brian Denaro succeeded Maj. Gen. Anthony J. Mastalir as head of Space Forces Indo-Pacific.
Brig. Gen. Anthony J. Mastalir
Space Superiority Takes Center Stage By Greg Hadley Looking into the future in 1957, then-Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever predicted that “in the long haul, our safety as a nation may depend upon our achieving ‘space superiority.’” Now,...
Leaders in charge of Space Force components under combatant commands said their organizations are too small to engage with other services in their theaters like they need to do.
Brig. Gen. Anthony J. Mastalir, commander of Space Forces Indo-Pacific, said the growing complexity of China's military exercises, combined with its use of space weapons, makes it difficult to distinguish exercises from actual operations.
AURORA, Colo.—When Soldiers and Sailors went to work constructing a floating pier in Gaza last year, the U.S. Space Force monitored their security using civilian satellite intelligence. The Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Tracking, or TacSRT program—first discussed at last year’s AFA...
It’s often said commanders have an insatiable appetite for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. When it comes to space, commercial capabilities are helping to at least whet that appetite, Space Force commanders said at the Spacepower Conference this week.
Chinese satellites in geosynchronous orbit are maneuvering at high rates, practicing orbital warfare techniques, studying other spacecraft, and testing new ways to evade threats—and Space Force and industry leaders warn the U.S. must learn to maneuver in response.
U.S. Space Forces Japan activated Dec. 3 at Yokota Air Base, the latest milestone in the service’s push to establish components within combatant commands and a sign of a deepening space partnership between the two allies, officials said.
Two years after standing up, U.S. Space Forces Indo-Pacific is bolstering partnerships and expanding exercises across the Indo-Pacific theater, said Brig. Gen. Anthony J. Mastalir, the Space Force's first component commander.
Top military space officials from Japan and the U.S. said at the AFA Warfare Symposium that they anticipate the U.S. Space Force will stand up its new component in Japan before the end of 2024. “I think we have everything in place,” U.S. Space Forces ...
The name—U.S. Space Forces – Space—may seem a little redundant. But Space Force officials say the new organization, announced Dec. 12, will improve readiness and transform how it organizes and presents forces.
The U.S. and Japan held their first ever Space Engagement Talks last week—a key step in identifying and developing ways by which the two countries can work together in space. Lt. Gen. Philip A. Garrant, deputy chief of space operations for strategy, plans, programs, and requirements; ...
