U.S. Space Force

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.

The U.S. Space Force is sharpening plans to monitor and defend the region between Earth and the Moon as global competition extends deeper into space.

AeroVironment is cutting its sales and earnings outlook after the Pentagon terminated the Satellite Commercial Communications Augmentation Resource program.

Increased on-orbit activity by the U.S. and its adversaries is prompting an insatiable appetite for new space domain awareness sensors.

The program to build a second slate of new missile warning and tracking satellites in medium Earth orbit (MEO) for the U.S. Space Force has completed PDR.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Airbus Defense and Space and Orbit Fab are teaming up to explore future refuelable satellites in geostationary orbit under a European Space Agency program.

The Space Force in 2022 awarded then Blue Halo a $1.4 billion contract for 12 Badger phased array antenna systems.

The Air Force secretary wants to fuse data gathered from a vast array of military and intelligence sensors for battle management.

A new U.S. military satellite built to track objects in cislunar space could fly by the end of 2026.

USSF halts Vulcan launches amid anomaly review, weighs options for GPS III satellite deployment.