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U.S. Strategic Command starts Global Lightning 2020
Jan 23, 2020 (UPI)
Global Lightning 2020 is part of the Joint Staffs Globally-Integrated Exercise 20-2, U.S. Cyber Command's Exercise Cyber Lightning 2020, North American Aerospac...
US general says Pentagon should copy Elon Musk, North Korea
Jan 23, 2020 (Sputnik)
What do Kim Jong Un and Elon Musk have in common? According to the Pentagon's number 2 general, it's relentless drive to succeed in spite of failures - somethin...
Space-superiority exercise, Space Flag, concluded successfully on U.S. Space Force birthday
Jan 20, 2020 (SPX)
The two-week exercise started Dec. 9 under the auspices of the former Air Force Space Command, but finished on the very day the U.S. Space Force was established...
Russian Space Agency Develops Efficient Countermeasures Against Orbital Surveillance
Jan 17, 2020 (Sputnik)
"During certain periods of time, when the protected area falls within the observation scope of a spacecraft, it is necessary to ensure that the receiving equipm...
Eighth Space Flag exercise wrapped as Space Force signed into law
Jan 17, 2020 (UPI)
The Space Force announced Thursday that the exercise, which started Dec. 9 at the Boeing Virtual Warfare Center under the auspices of the Air Force Space Comman...
2nd Space Operations Squadron sets SVN-74 healthy and active
Jan 17, 2020 (SPX)
Setting SVN-74 healthy and active means the satellite will be available for use by military and civilian GPS users around the world as part of the constellation...
Lockheed Martin Launches First Smart Satellite Enabling Space Mesh Networking
Jan 17, 2020 (SPX)
"Early on-orbit data show Pony Express 1 is performing its important pathfinding mission very well. Lockheed Martin's HiveStar technology on board will give our...
New Space Force Chief sworn in at White House
Jan 15, 2020 (VOA)
Raymond assumed the duties of the first head of the Space Force on December 20, 2019, when U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law the National Defense Auth...
L3Harris nabs $12.9M contract for National Space Defense Center Sustainment
Jan 15, 2020 (UPI)
The contract modifies a previous deal for National Space Defense Center sustainment work at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado. The deal's announcement comes ...
Raymond sworn in as head of Space Force
Jan 14, 2020 (UPI)
Vice President Mike Pence swore Raymond in as Chief of Space Operations in a formal ceremony at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, just weeks after Presi...
Russian satellites to monitor Iran after attack on US bases, plane crash
Jan 10, 2020 (Sputnik)
The statement, which gives updates on Roscosmos' satellite monitoring operations, also said that the agency planned to monitor the Australian bushfires, and flo...
WGS-11+ Leverages Commercial Technology to Deliver Twice the Capability
Jan 06, 2020 (AFNS)
The WGS program office, leveraging enterprise partnerships and a collaborative culture with Army, Navy, and Boeing systems engineers, worked closely together to...
14th Air Force now designated as U.S. Space Operations Command
Jan 01, 2020 (UPI)
The new mission, known as SPOC, supports the U.S. Space Force in protecting U.S. interests, deterring aggression and conducting operations in space, an Air Forc...
Allies join Space Force for multinational collaboration
Dec 27, 2019 (UPI)
According to an announcement by the U.S. Air Force, Group Captain Darren Whiteley, a Royal Air Force officer from Britain and the deputy director of the Combine...
Beijing attacks US for 'weaponisation' of outer space
Dec 23, 2019 (AFP)
Following concerns that China and Russia are challenging its position in space, US President Donald Trump signed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act on ...
Challenged by China and Russia, US builds force for future space wars
Dec 21, 2019 (AFP)
Acting on an ambition by President Donald Trump that had met resistance at first, the White House signaled its determination to not cede superiority in a Star W...
Japan to launch intelligence-gathering satellite next month
Dec 18, 2019 (XNA)
Mitsubishi Heavy, which is in charge of the launch, said the H2A F41 rocket will lift off between 10 a.m. and noon on Jan. 27 from the Tanegashima Space Center ...
Senate passes $738B defense bill, including Space Force
Dec 17, 2019 (UPI)
President Donald Trump has said he would sign the fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, passed by an 86-8 vote, after Senate and House Armed Services ...
Roscosmos to begin creating United State Space Program in 2020
Dec 17, 2019 (Sputnik)
"Next year, we will move on to creating the united state [space] program," Rogozin told reporters at a press conference at the Vostochny spaceport in Russia's F...
The United States Space Force
Dec 17, 2019 (SPX)
This is the first new service branch in more than 60 years, charged with the mission of ensuring America's freedom to operate beyond the atmosphere and to deny ...
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