Space Force aims to provide a “global capability to positively ID an adversary committing an orbital attack” By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 17 April 2023 COLORADO SPRINGS — The U.S. Space Force is facing a new challenge in its role to safeguard the country’s satellites from foreign threats, as
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 3 March 2023 The guidelines are for military space operations, not for commercial or civil space activities WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Department on March 3 released updated guidelines for safe and responsible space operations. These guidelines were issued Feb. 9 by Defense Secretary
By Tara Copp, Published by Defense One, 4 August 2022 U.S. intelligence and military are speeding new sensors to space. They are still working on details of who’s ultimately in charge during a conflict. The National Reconnaissance Office controls some of the most advanced sensing capabilities in space, which are
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 24 May 2022 The satellite control network includes the ground stations and tracking antennas used by the U.S. military to communicate with its satellites WASHINGTON — The Space Rapid Capabilities Office awarded BlueHalo a $1.4 billion eight-year contract to add communications capacity to the
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 20 April 2022 Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein: The Space Force needs to “understand where we need tactically responsive launch, but more importantly, tactically responsive space.” WASHINGTON – The U.S. Space Force plans to conduct in 2023 a “responsive space” demonstration where private launch companies
By Brian Toohey, Published by Community99, 15 April 2022 Developments at the U.S.-Australian satellite intelligence base at Pine Gap near Alice Springs give the United States an unprecedented ability to detect Chinese spacecraft from space and potentially destroy them. Previously, detection was mainly based on ground-based radars, which are no longer seen as suitable for identifying
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 14 April 2022 When China fired a missile into one of its own weather satellites in a 2007 show of force, experts called the demo the beginning of a new antisatellite arms race. Fast forward to 2022, and a Chinese space tug is spotted
By Eric Berger, Published by Ars Technica, 3 March 2022 The US Air Force Research Laboratory seeks to develop a satellite to patrol cislunar space. "Until now, the United States space mission extended 22,000 miles above Earth." This week, the US Air Force Research Laboratory released a video on YouTube
