Space Force missile-tracking “Foo Fighter” satellites clear design milestone

Illustration of missile-tracking sensor satellites. Credit: L3Harris Technologies By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 7 April 2025 COLORADO SPRINGS — Eight satellites designed by Millennium Space Systems with sensor payloads from L3Harris Technologies have cleared a key design review, paving the way for production and a planned late 2027

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“Space battles are real”: Space Force unveils groundbreaking framework defining massive cosmic warfighting strategies

Space war room being developed by BAE systems for DARPA Credit: DARPA By Jane Marsh, Published by Sustainability Times, 30 March 2025 The United States Space Force is poised to redefine its strategic role in the cosmos with a groundbreaking "space warfighting" framework, designed to establish clear terminology and concepts

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Space Force delivers warfighting effects, protects homeland

By David Vergun, Published by Unitd States Space Force, 21 March 2025 WASHINGTON (AFNS) --  Since the U.S. Space Force stood up five years ago, it has delivered warfighting effects to the point that the U.S. can now contest the space domain, said Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman,

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Putting Missile Interceptors In Space Critical To Defending U.S. Citizens: Space Force Boss

Los Alamos National Laboratory via Aerospace Projects Review By Joseph Trevithick,Published by The War Zone, 20 March 2025 The large-scale weaponization of space appears to be imminent as competition in orbit heats up between the U.S. and its adversaries. New space-based interceptors called for in President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile

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The ‘Space Laser’ Wars Have Begun—And America Wants to Be First to Develop the High-Powered Weapons

(Getty Images/iStockphoto) By Matt Berman, Published by Popular Mechanics, 20 March 2025 One of DARPA’s concerns is that Russia has allegedly developed a nuclear space-based, anti-satellite weapon that may be capable of blinding hundreds of satellites. DARPA, the U.S. military’s advanced research agency, is funding space laser projects amid simmering concerns that

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US Space Force 5 years later: What has it accomplished so far, and where does it go from here?

(Image credit: U.S. Space Force) By Brtt Tingley, Published by Space.com, 20 December 2024 The U.S. Space Force celebrates its fifth anniversary today. The service was formally established on Dec. 20, 2019, when President Donald Trump signed it into law with the National Defense Authorization Act, the bill that allocates

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