The Space Systems Command, located in Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, oversees the military’s major space procurement programs Credit: Space Systems Command At the beginning of 2026, it’s ...

The U.S. Space Force, working closely with the Space Development Agency and the Missile Defense Agency, is pursuing a system of advanced sensors in medium-Earth orbit (MEO) as part of a larger missile ...

The U.S. Space Force has cleared a major design hurdle in its Resilient Missile Warning and Tracking program. (BAE Systems Space and Mission Systems) The U.S. Space Force has cleared a major design ...

United Launch Alliance may have finally got its Vulcan rocket cleared for national security missions, but the Space Force decided to favor SpaceX for the majority of a batch of newly assigned missions ...

A year ago, the leaders of the House Armed Services Committee put the Space Force on notice. The service, they said, was putting too much focus on its operators and not enough on its acquisitions ...

DENVER—The Global Positioning System is one of the few space programs that touches nearly every human life, and the stewards of the satellite navigation network are eager to populate the fleet with ...

The U.S. Space Command staff practices their formation Sept. 9, 2019, before a ceremony to recognize the establishment of Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. Colorado ...

The Advanced Extremely High Frequency, or AEHF, system is a joint service satellite communications system that provides survivable, global, secure, protected and jam-resistant communications for ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Spacecraft Engineering Department recently developed the Transmit/Receive Enterprise (TREx) service with sponsorship from the Space ...