The U.S. Space Force is looking for advanced tech for space-based interceptors that can intercept ballistic missiles during their boost phase. Shown here, a view of Earth from the space shuttle ...

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 ...

In this episode of Space Minds, host Mike Gruss sits down with Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy, one of the U.S. Space Force’s most influential acquisition leaders and recipient of the SpaceNews Icon Award for ...

Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink speaks at the Space Force Association’s Spacepower Conference in Orlando, Fla., Dec. 11, 2025. Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Chad Trujillo ORLANDO, Fla. — An AI ...

Congress wants to know why the Space Force needs a special operations component command, and wants answers before any taxpayer money is spent on creating it. The then-head of U.S. Special Operations ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force on Saturday will not have a big birthday celebration like the Army or Navy had this year, but the service keeps moving forward. “Over the last six years we’ve been in ...

"These symbols conjure the character of the systems, the importance of their mission, and the identity of the Guardians who employ them." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

(TNS) — The large annual defense act steps into staffing issues within the Space Force, requiring roughly equal staffing between operational and acquisition positions. The National Defense ...

Space Force Guardians prepare to take part in “Resolute Space 25” on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, the force’s largest exercise to date, on July 8, 2025. U.S. Space Force/ Lt. Col.

On December 20, 2019, I established the United States Space Force—America’s Guardians of the High Frontier—as the sixth branch of our Armed Forces. Today, our Nation thanks the incredible Guardians ...

China destroyed one of its own satellites on Jan. 11, 2007, creating thousands of pieces of debris in orbit while revealing its capabilities—and plans—for the space domain. That moment signaled the ...

The Air Force and Space Force are spending millions of dollars researching a concept called “rocket cargo,” where they would shoot a capsule full of troops or supplies into orbit and land it anywhere ...