U.S. Space Force

The U.S. Space Force has picked Blue Origin to advance in discussions to lease Space Launch Complex-14 at Vandenberg SFB, California, for heavy or super-heavy vertical launch operations.

The U.S. Space Force is exploring options to still use the Vulcan rocket heavy-lift launch vehicle for less-complex missions.

The U.S. Space Force’s senior acquisition official is telling industry to prepare for significant satellite production contracts should the fiscal 2027 budget request.

HASC Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) is ready to take the White House’s opening fiscal 2027 defense spending bid as the new minimum funding level.

The U.S. Space Force has picked 14 vendors to build space domain awareness satellites over the next decade for a new constellation in geosynchronous orbit.

The flagship GPS upgrade in the U.S. Space Force's domain is years late, billions of dollars over budget and still not operational.

U.S. Space Force helped to make sure Artemis II's trajectory was clear using one of its newest space domain awareness systems—the Advanced Tracking and Launch Analysis System, or ATLAS.

The U.S. Space Force is set to double its R&D funding, with a focus on missile warning satellites, classified programs and advanced space technologies.

On-orbit servicing startup Starfish Space raised more than $100 million in a Series B funding round, buoyed by a satellite deorbiting contract with the U.S.

Editors delve into the winners and losers in the White House’s $1.5 trillion defense spending plan.

The Trump administration wants to fund the U.S. Space Force’s request for a larger budget in fiscal 2027, and then some.

The space company is scaling its lunar plans to match NASA’s new ambitions and returning to a rapid launch cadence.

As Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman prepares for the end of his time leading the U.S. Space Force, he is looking 15 years into the future and 232 years into the past.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded Vantor—formerly Maxar Intelligence—a new contract to surveil high-interest objects in space.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded SpaceX two additional missions on behalf of the Space Development Agency (SDA) to launch no earlier than late fiscal 2027.

China is looking to use directed energy to target multiple satellites simultaneously.

The U.S. Space Force has stood up two cyber defense squadrons focused on protecting the nation’s launch ranges from real-time attacks.

In-space servicing company Katalyst Space Technologies will launch its robotic space vehicle on an Arianespace rocket, marking the first Ariane 6 launch supporting a U.S. Space Force initiative.

Russia is likely going to boost its military space launches in remote sensing to close an emerging capability gap, a U.S. Space Force official says.

The U.S. Space Force is shifting a GPS III launch from United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rockets to the SpaceX Falcon fleet for the fourth time.

The record-high defense top line is intended to grow aircraft fleets, increase munition buys and bolster missile defenses.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded a follow-on contract to Kratos to provide ground management and integration services for its forthcoming MEO missile warning and tracking satellite program.

A U.S. Space Force program to boost the capacity of military satellite communications in Arctic regions has been operationally accepted.

The U.S. Space Force has laid out how it plans to divide most of its mission areas under the Pentagon’s new portfolio acquisition executive (PAE) system.

U.S. Central Command (Centcom) Commander Adm. Brad Cooper on March 11 shared a brief video update regarding the ongoing Operation Epic Fury.