President Donald Trump announces the Golden Dome missile defense shield alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Sen. Kevin Cramer, and Sen. Dan Sullivan in the Oval Office in May 2025. A revolution ...

As part of the Space Force's review of its acquisition portfolio, the service is considering augmenting its Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability, depicted here, with commercially available systems.

Naming weapon systems to give insight into its purpose or the branch’s culture is not new within the U.S. military. (DVIDS) The U.S. Space Force released names of space weapon systems to better link ...

In a hard-to-believe rapid-fire scheduling sequence, two Cape Canaveral launch companies should launch three rockets within a ...

United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur lifts off Oct. 4, 2024, on the Cert-2 test flight. Credit: ULA WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has certified United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket, ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.— A new Space Force planning document predicting future enemy trends through 2040, designed to help officials better acquire key technologies and prioritize missions, should be ...

The U.S. Space Force has selected SpaceX and United Launch Alliance to perform the first seven launches under the National Security Space Launch Program, or NSSL, Phase 3 Lane 2 contracts, Breaking ...

A generation ago, when former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin promoted the mantra of a “faster, better, cheaper” approach to the agency’s science missions, critics often joked that NASA could only pick ...

It has been nearly six years since the United States Space Force was established, when President Donald Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020 into law. The sixth and ...

In recent years, the US military has made much of a concept known as tactically responsive launch. This essentially means that if there is some rapidly developing threat in space—say an adversary ...

In an effort to reinforce its identity as the youngest military branch, the U.S. Space Force is adopting an official naming scheme for its mission areas, including drawing from the Norse pantheon for ...