WASHINGTON — Slingshot Aerospace won a $27 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to further develop an artificial intelligence–based training system designed to prepare military personnel for ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket at liftoff during the NG-2 mission on Nov. 13. Credit: Blue Origin The U.S. Space Force is now taking proposals from new launch providers with rockets ready to fly by ...

The U.S. Space Force has selected SpaceX and United Launch Alliance to perform the first seven launches under the National Security Space Launch Program, or NSSL, Phase 3 Lane 2 contracts, Breaking ...

The U.S. Space Force is planning a competition for commercial maneuverable satellites to support the military’s Maneuverable Geosynchronous (GEO) program. The Maneuverable GEO program reportedly seeks ...

A little more than a century ago, the US Army Air Service came up with a scheme for naming the military’s multiplying fleet of airplanes. The 1924 aircraft designation code produced memorable names ...

The U.S. Space Force has reached a crucial milestone, one that modernizes and enhances the command and control capabilities of the Defense Department's space wing. Nearly eight months after awarding ...

The Space Force is focusing on domain awareness for the first CASR mission area. Credit: ASBE/Getty Images The U.S. Space Force has set domain awareness as its initial—and for now, sole—mission area ...

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 ...

The U.S. Space Force is close to wielding new weapons designed to jam Chinese and Russian satellites in orbit, according to new Space Force data published by Bloomberg this week. The new weapons, ...

A potential near-peer conflict with China or Russia will almost certainly involve the launching of ballistic missiles against US military targets. Now, the US military wants weapon systems that will ...

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 ...