Charles Galbreath

At the most fundamental level, this requires the Space Force to have assured access to space. The Space Force must retain a diverse stable of launch providers, while expanding options for launch locations.

Small satellites lend themselves to many more applications than simply low-Earth orbit resilience.  Russian and Chinese offensive spacepower ambitions are making headlines and are intent on erasing the vital advantage the United States has in space. U.S. defense leadership now...

Nestled within the 720 pages of the Senate Armed Services Committee Report on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 are a few short paragraphs directing a briefing “on a strategy for DOD’s activities and interests in cislunar space.” There are grave national ...

The Space Force rightly wants to consolidate the Department’s entire space portfolio. Resistance has been strong. But a measure now in Congress would formalize the Space Force vision to unify the space missions now fulfilled by the Air Guard into the Space Force. Congress should ...

Military missions in the air, on land, and at sea demand robust, timely weather information. On-orbit space-based environmental monitoring (SBEM) systems are a critical source of this data, but years of underfunding, delayed, curtailed, and canceled modernization programs have left the SBEM enterprise in a ...