U.S. Space Force

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

The U.S. Space Force says its ability to outpace threats in orbit hinges on whether it can revamp how it organizes, buys and fields capabilities.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded the first batch of prototype contracts for the space-based interceptors (SBI) element of the Golden Dome, but details are scarce.

The U.S. Space Force expects to award contracts for space-based midcourse interceptors in February.

The Eastern Range marked its 100th launch of year on Nov. 20, an unprecedented milestone.

The U.S. Space Force is finalizing an outline of its ideal force structure to serve as a basis for budgets and planning.

The U.S. Space Force is conducting market research for a potential foreign military sale (FMS) to Canada for command-and-control (C2) capabilities.

From virtual ranges to on-orbit testbeds, the U.S. Space Force wants to give Guardians the authentic training experience other services take for granted.

Firefly Aerospace intends to make a second attempt to launch the seventh mission of its Alpha rocket by early next calendar year.

With less than two months to go in 2025, the global launch market has already surpassed all previous annual records.

SpaceX proposes revised blast-danger zones for Starship launch activities in Florida.

America’s launch sites are undergoing massive transformations to support a new era in space.

DARPA has kicked off an effort to detect and track faint objects hundreds of thousands of miles away in cislunar space.

With ambitions to become the “LAX of spaceports,” Vandenberg SFB is preparing for a new launch era.

Trump’s Golden Dome is driving calls for a new layer in the Pentagon’s future on-orbit architecture.

The U.S. Space Force has released a draft request for proposals for new satellites under the RG-XX program, an Oct. 21 notice says.

The U.S. Space Force has tapped Vantor to help it track high-interest objects on orbit using non-Earth imaging, the company announced Oct. 22.

Amid increasing competition among the stars, the United States and its allies are asserting themselves more clearly on space control.

iRocket reports a successful flight test of the company’s 2.75-in. IRX-100 version of the Hydra 70 rocket system.

The U.S. Space Force expects to launch the next Space Development Agency (SDA) mission on Oct. 14 from Vandenberg SFB, California, with six backup windows available, Space Launch Delta (SLD) 30 said Oct. 8.

Stoke Space has raised $510 million in a Series D funding round led by US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT).

The U.S. Space Force has seen its foreign military sales cases grow exponentially in the past four years.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded space remote sensing company Muon Space a multi-million-dollar weather monitoring contract.

Blue Origin will build a new payload processing facility at Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, under a U.S. Space Force contract announced Oct. 7.

As Beijing races to match U.S. capabilities in orbit, the Pentagon warns of rising threats across all orbital layers.