U.S. Space Force

By Robert Wall, Tony Osborne
With their promise of deep magazines and relatively low cost per shot, laser weapons are becoming a battlefield reality.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Vivienne Machi, Irene Klotz
U.S. launch diversity returns with the United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket’s first Space Force flight.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
The U.S. military recently used its new Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) to successfully demo some of the key elements of the modernized anti-jam waveform.
Satellites

By Guy Norris
KBR hopes tech and tools developed for its Iron Stallion space domain awareness monitoring platform will enable it to play a key role in Golden Dome.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Vivienne Machi
United Launch Alliance successfully launched its Vulcan rocket on Aug. 12.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket is poised to join SpaceX’s Falcon fleet in launching the country’s highest priority national security space missions.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
Rocket Lab’s spacecraft for the U.S. Space Force’s next Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) mission is now in final testing.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
The Vulcan rocket will deploy USSF-106 to geosynchronous orbit from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, pending range approval.
Operations & Safety

By Vivienne Machi
Lockheed Martin has completed environmental testing for the first of two new missile warning satellites built for the U.S. Space Force, a company official said Aug. 5.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Vivienne Machi
In 2025, “sustained space maneuver” has been added to Spacecom's top five focus areas, its commander says.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Vivienne Machi
Moving a satellite from the ground to orbit in hours offers a new edge in space deterrence.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Vivienne Machi
The U.S. Space Force and its intel partners are deploying the first satellites meant to perform ground moving target indication, a senior service official says.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The Senate late July 31 confirmed Adm. Daryl Caudle to be chief of naval operations and Lt. Gen. Sean Bratton as vice chief of space operations.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Vivienne Machi
The U.S. Space Force is increasingly exploring commercial options to provide space domain awareness on orbit.
Commercial Space

By Vivienne Machi
The U.S. Space Force has selected five companies to begin the process of building new space-based protected tactical satellite communications capabilities.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The U.S. Space Force plans to use its X-37B to conduct operational demonstrations of laser link communications and quantum-based navigation in space.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
As China and Russia flex their military muscles in space, Western defense officials are becoming punchier in their mindset around those operations.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
Blue Origin will fly a space domain awareness sensor built by Scout Space on its inaugural Blue Ring mission targeted for spring 2026, the company said.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The U.S. may be losing ground in a global race to develop highly maneuverable spacecraft.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
The Missile Defense Agency is conducting market research for new systems to launch current and future interceptors for the Golden Dome missile defense project.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Vivienne Machi
The new leader of the Golden Dome for America initiative has two months to deliver a baseline architecture outlining the future missile defense capability.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Vivienne Machi
The service seeks to fortify the GPS architecture against such threats as jamming, spoofing and other adversarial actions.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The U.S. Space Force is using the fiscal 2026 budget cycle to take a look at its space-based GPS enterprise.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Vivienne Machi
Astroscale U.S. has signed an agreement with NASA to test the on-orbit servicing capabilities of its Refueler spacecraft at Goddard Space Flight Center.
Operations & Safety