Protesters outside the 2022 Rocket Lab conference at Te Pae Convention Centre in Christchurch.Peter Meecham / The Press By Warren Thomson. Published by The Press, 9 June 2025 Warren Thomson is an anti-nuclear activist who has been writing and speaking on peace issues for fifty years, and is involved with
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launches the USSF-124 mission for the U.S. Space Force on Feb. 14, 2024. (Image credit: SpaceX via X) By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 16 May 2025 SpaceX’s ascent from commercial launch provider to indispensable national security asset marks one of the most significant shifts
Firefly’s Alpha rocket will launch the mysterious Victus Sol mission for the Space Force. (Firefly Aerospace / Trevor Mahlmann) By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 16 April 2025 While the current focus on the TacRS program is space domain awareness, Col. Bryon McClain, SSC's head of Space Domain Awareness
The Space Force mission known as Victus Nox flew on a Firefly Alpha rocket. It lifted off Sept. 14, 2023, from Space Launch Complex 2 West at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Credit: Firefly Aerospace By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 15 February 2025 WASHINGTON — Space transportation company
Vuctus Haze Mission: Orbital Today By Ivan Yatskov, Published by Orbital Today, 18 October 2024 Space defence technology company True Anomaly announced on Thursday, 17 October, that it had selected Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket to launch its Jackal autonomous orbiter for the US Space Force’s Rapid Response Demonstration Mission, Victus
By Katherine Fidler, Published in Metro, 16 April 2024 The US is preparing for the future – by practising a military attack in space. The Space Force, the unintentionally comedic wing of the country’s military created by Donald Trump, has announced a first-of-its-kind mission to demonstrate how it might defend
By Nicholas Francoeur, Published by Payload Space, 28 September 2023 This opinion piece is written by Nicholas Francoeur, an active-duty officer in the US Space Force. Most recently, he was the director of LEO and GEO operations, and was previously a senior range operations commander at Cape Canaveral. These views
By Courtney Albon, Published by Defense News, 27 September, 2023 WASHINGTON — A Space Force mission that successfully demonstrated the ability to buy, build and fly a satellite to orbit on rapid timelines highlights the need for more flexibility within the acquisition and launch enterprise, according to service officials. The
