Tag: SPACE FORCE
Northrop Grumman has completed the Critical Design Review and software demonstration for the US Space Force's Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC), according to a statement by the company. The programme will now focus on testing key subsystems later...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is helping the US Defense Department keep track of the increasingly competitive space domain, according to Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth, the agency’s director. Speaking at the GEOINT 2023 Symposium in St Louis, Whitworth said...
The US Space Force's Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM) has held its second Black Skies electronic warfare (EW) exercise and is preparing for another this fall, as well as a Red Skies orbital warfare exercise this summer and...
The US Space Force's Space Development Agency (SDA) has announced plans to launch its Tranche 2 data communications Transport Layer (T2TL) Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites in 2026 as part of the future Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). The T2TL...
Space Operations Command (SPOC) is expanding its Space Delta element, which focuses on intelligence to inform space operations for the US Space Force. SPOC has recently added an analysis squadron and plans to establish two more squadrons within the...
General B. Chance Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations for the United States Space Force, has called for a shake-up of the US military's approach to space. Speaking at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Saltzman expressed concern about complacency...
Boeing has unveiled an anti-jam payload that has been integrated into a US Space Force satellite communications spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch in 2024. The Protected Tactical Satcom Prototype (PTS-P) payload provides jammer geolocation, real-time adaptive nulling, frequency...
The United States Space Force's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6), an unmanned and reusable spaceplane, successfully landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility on November 12. The OTV-6 was the first mission to introduce a service module,...
On November 2, Gen. B. Chance Saltzman was officially installed as the Chief of Space Operations, the highest-ranking military post in the Space Force. Saltzman is only the second person to hold the position in the Space Force's history....