President Donald Trump’s 2027 budget includes $250 million for a satellite operations center at Grand Forks Air Force Base, ...

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – An image of Hurricanes Irma and Jose, downloaded by Reserve Citizen Airmen at the 6th Space Operations Squadron from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program ...

The U.S. military has quietly handed SpaceX a powerful new green light: permission to fly its giant Starship rocket from a historic Florida launch pad. The decision shifts Starship from a largely ...

A new Space Force vision document grapples with the future of space warfare and how the service can prepare for it.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Naming weapon systems to give insight into its purpose or the branch’s culture is not new within the U.S. military. (DVIDS) The U.S. Space Force released names of space weapon systems to better link ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on defense, strategy, the profession of arms, and aerospace. President Trump’s declaration of a potential increase in U.S.

U.S. Space Force Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy, a senior acquisition official at the Department of the Air Force, speaks at the 2026 Air & Space Forces Association’s Warfare Conference. Credit: Jud McCrehin ...