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Space Force

Illustration: Space Systems Command's SpaceDEN facility
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Integrate raises $3.4M and wins Space Force contract for management software

by Alan Boyle on August 15, 2023August 15, 2023 at 8:54 am

Seattle-based Integrate says it has raised $3.4 million in funding and secured a $1.25 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to boost its program management software platform into a… Read More

Illustration: Stoke Space second stage in orbit
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Godspeed, Stoke Space! Rocket startup gets John Glenn’s launch pad at the Cape

by Alan Boyle on March 8, 2023March 9, 2023 at 10:03 am

Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space says it’s won the go-ahead to take over the Florida launch complex where John Glenn began the trip that made him the first American in orbit… Read More

X-37B space plane after landing
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Boeing-built X-37B space plane lands after completing record 908-day orbital mission

by Alan Boyle on November 12, 2022November 12, 2022 at 12:44 pm

The U.S. Space Force’s Boeing-built X-37B space plane today completed yet another record-setting mission, landing like an airplane at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida 908 days after it was… Read More

Illustration: New Glenn rocket

Space Force awards $87.5M to Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, SpaceX and ULA for testing

by Alan Boyle on September 24, 2021September 25, 2021 at 1:34 am

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command today announced awards totaling $87.5 million to support prototype commercial projects relating to next-generation rocket testing and enhancements to make upper stages more… Read More

Telesat Phase 1 LEO satellite

Microsoft and Ball Aerospace enlist the cloud to speed up Space Force’s data flow

by Alan Boyle on May 19, 2021May 19, 2021 at 7:24 am

How will Pentagon planners cope with the torrents of data that are expected to rain down from a constellation of satellites monitoring hotspots from low Earth orbit? Microsoft and Ball… Read More

Kayla Barron and Anne McClain

Two Washington state women join ‘Artemis Team’ to go on NASA’s moon missions

by Alan Boyle on December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 at 7:03 pm

NASA today named the first 18 astronauts of its “Artemis Team” for missions to the moon — and two of the teammates trace their roots to Washington state. One of… Read More

Satellite constellation
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Pentagon worries that satellite attacks could spark ‘mutually assured destruction’

by Alan Boyle on November 6, 2020November 6, 2020 at 7:33 pm

In the years ahead, the long-running nightmare of the nuclear Cold War — mutually assured destruction — could return in a new context on the final frontier, a Pentagon adviser… Read More

Falcon Heavy launch

Despite winning contract, SpaceX sticks with lawsuit against feds and rocket rivals

by Alan Boyle on August 19, 2020October 24, 2020 at 11:23 am

Update: A federal district judge in California ruled against SpaceX and ordered its case against the Air Force to be vacated. The order was issued under seal on Sept. 24,… Read More

Vulcan and Falcon
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ULA and SpaceX win shares of future national security launches; Blue Origin loses out

by Alan Boyle on August 7, 2020August 13, 2020 at 10:55 am

The U.S. Space Force designated United Launch Alliance and SpaceX as the winners of a multibillion-dollar competition for national security launches over a five-year period, passing up a proposal from… Read More

SpaceX Falcon launch
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SpaceX sends third next-gen GPS III satellite into orbit for Space Force

by Alan Boyle on June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 at 1:47 pm

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the third in a series of next-generation GPS III satellites into orbit today, marking another step forward for America’s satellite-based navigation system and the… Read More

Atlas 5 X-37B launch
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Boeing-built X-37B space plane goes into orbit for shadowy Space Force test mission

by Alan Boyle on May 17, 2020May 17, 2020 at 8:49 am

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launched a Boeing-built X-37B space plane today on a semi-secret orbital mission under the management of the recently created Space Force. Today’s USSF-7… Read More

X-37B space plane
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Space Force will test solar power transmission during X-37B space plane’s next mystery flight

by Alan Boyle on May 6, 2020May 17, 2020 at 8:39 am

When a Boeing-built X-37B space plane is sent into orbit this month for the test program’s sixth flight, it will try out a technology that’s been more than a decade… Read More

AEHF-6 launch
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ULA’s Atlas 5 rocket launches AEHF-6 satellite on Space Force’s first official orbital mission

by Alan Boyle on March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 at 8:20 pm

The first satellite mission conducted under the name of the U.S. Space Force got underway today with the launch of the AEHF-6 military communications satellite atop a United Launch Alliance… Read More

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Star Trek’s George Takei tweaks President Trump over Space Force’s trekky new seal

by Alan Boyle on January 24, 2020January 25, 2020 at 7:34 am

We don’t know whether Mr. Spock would have cocked an eyebrow over the Starfleet-like U.S. Space Force seal that was revealed by President Donald Trump today, but we’ve found out… Read More

Space Force uniform
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Space Force flies through Twitter flak after unveiling camo uniforms in earthy tones

by Alan Boyle on January 18, 2020January 19, 2020 at 7:06 am

The newly minted U.S. Space Force unveiled its uniform on Friday — and defended its fashion statement against Twitter criticism that the camouflage color scheme should have been more spacey.… Read More

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President Trump signs the Space Force into existence under the Air Force’s wing

by Alan Boyle on December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 at 7:00 pm

Amid military fanfare, President Donald Trump signed a defense authorization bill into law to create the U.S. Space Force as a sixth branch of the armed forces. “This is a… Read More

U.S. Space Command flag rollout
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Trump ushers in U.S. Space Command, with Space Force (or Corps) in the works

by Alan Boyle on August 29, 2019August 29, 2019 at 5:32 pm

President Donald Trump today hailed the revival of the U.S. Space Command to protect America’s technological assets on the final frontier, and put in another pitch for the establishment of… Read More

Space Launch System

White House budget proposal tightens the screws on science, from space to salmon

by Alan Boyle on March 11, 2019March 11, 2019 at 8:55 pm

The White House’s $4.7 trillion spending plan for fiscal year 2020 aims to give a boost to the Space Force, but would dial down work on NASA’s Space Launch System,… Read More

Oval Office ceremony
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President Trump signs directive to create new Space Force under the Air Force’s wing

by Alan Boyle on February 19, 2019February 19, 2019 at 6:12 pm

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump today signed a space policy directive that lays out further steps in the creation of the U.S. Space Force as a sixth military branch housed… Read More

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A new ‘Office’ for Steve Carell: Netflix signs on for ‘Space Force,’ a comedy based on Trump plan

by Kurt Schlosser on January 16, 2019January 16, 2019 at 11:51 am

Steve Carell is going from “The Office” to the “Space Force.” Netflix has signed on for a new comedy series named for President Donald Trump’s plan for a space-defending military… Read More

Vice President Mike Pence
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Trump authorizes revival of U.S. Space Command, with Space Force on agenda

by Alan Boyle on December 18, 2018December 18, 2018 at 11:02 am

President Donald Trump today authorized the Pentagon to set up the U.S. Space Command as its own combatant command, in preparation for creating a Space Force as a separate branch… Read More

National Space Council meeting
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Space Force plan moves forward amid heightened talk about final-frontier fights

by Alan Boyle on October 23, 2018October 23, 2018 at 4:32 pm

The National Space Council today pushed forward recommendations to raise the profile of military space activities, at first through a combined U.S. Space Command and eventually through a separate Space… Read More

Space Force logo
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CNN survey suggests support for Space Force doesn’t match Star Wars appeal

by Alan Boyle on August 16, 2018August 16, 2018 at 6:24 pm

News Brief: A CNN survey suggests most Americans don’t back the Trump administration’s plans to create a new military branch known as the Space Force. The survey, based on a… Read More

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Late-night comics are over the moon when it comes to ridiculing Trump’s Space Force plans

by Kurt Schlosser on August 10, 2018August 10, 2018 at 10:00 am

As if the Trump administration’s plan to establish a Space Force by 2020 wasn’t comical enough — especially in the straight-faced nature of the vice president’s Thursday announcement — now… Read More

Mike Pence

VP Mike Pence details plan to create Space Force (sans starship troopers) by 2020

by Alan Boyle on August 9, 2018December 18, 2018 at 10:58 am

The Trump administration is taking immediate steps to raise the profile of the Defense Department’s space operations, and asking Congress to create the Department of the Space Force as a… Read More

Donald Trump at National Space Council

President Trump directs Pentagon to create ‘separate but equal’ Space Force

by Alan Boyle on June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 at 4:05 pm

President Donald Trump today directed the Department of Defense to create a Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. military, alongside the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and… Read More

X-37B landing
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Space Force? Space Corps? Space Guard? Experts study ways to patrol final frontier

by Alan Boyle on June 1, 2018June 1, 2018 at 11:09 am

Two months after President Donald Trump said the United States may create a new military branch to focus on national security space activities, Politico is reporting that CNA Corp., a… Read More

Donald Trump at Miramar
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President Donald Trump revives the policy debate over creating military Space Force

by Alan Boyle on March 13, 2018March 13, 2018 at 5:08 pm

President Donald Trump today talked about creating a U.S. Space Force, breathing new life into a concept that’s been proposed by lawmakers but opposed by Pentagon leaders. The subject of… Read More

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