General Chance Saltzman’s newly released Vector 2025 is the clearest articulation yet of the U.S. Space Force’s purpose, priorities, and philosophy. It captures the seriousness of today’s contested ...

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman speaks at the Air, Space & Cyber Conference at National Harbor, Md. Sept 23, 2025. Credit: U.S. Air Force NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The U.S. Space Force ...

The U.S. Space Force is hoping to get its own permanent opposition force for training, this time in orbit. Specifically, the service is looking at sending up satellites into space to serve as ...

U.S. Space Force Lt. Gen. David N. Miller, Jr., Commander of Space Operations Command (right), speaks at a panel the Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space ...

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman (right) speaks Nov. 20, 2025, in a fireside chat with Stephen Kitay, vice president of space defense at True Anomaly. Credit: Center for Strategic and ...

Today, guardians go to space only in popular misconception, but tomorrow? There might be solid tactical reasons to put Space Force personnel in orbit, argues a new report from the Mitchell Institute ...

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 ...

Less than 10% of Americans know the Space Force exists. It’s a problem the Colorado Springs-based Space Force Association is tackling by starting chapters across the country to host events and educate ...

The Space Force’s recent contract with aerospace firm Vantor to provide for better situational awareness in space highlights how even hybrid warfare is moving its way to the cosmos. The United States ...

While many of the experiments it will conduct in the coming months are classified, the Space Force has identified space-based laser communications and quantum sensing as two of its focus areas.

The U.S. Space Force will soon start naming its weapons, communications and space systems after themes including Norse mythology and ghosts. Space Force shared the plans on Thursday, framing them in ...