Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond, the Space Force’s first member and first Chief of Space Operations, will pass responsibility over to Gen. B. Chance Saltzman in a ceremony officiated by Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Nov. 2—marking the end ...
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Some of the Space Force’s top officers will have a new option for intermediate- and senior-level developmental education starting in 2023. The Space Force announced a new partnership with Johns Hopkins University. The plan is to provide service-specific, in-residence programs at its School of Advanced ...
The commercial space industry has proven its potential military value since Russia invaded Ukraine—and not just in the fighting. But the Defense Department won’t be able to subscribe to every commercial imagery or communication service and may instead benefit from “some kind of a call-up ...
Some of the satellites that will form the planned “backbone” of joint all-domain command and control may include “translation” payloads to let other satellites feed their data into the Pentagon’s massive mesh network, the head of the Space Development Agency said Oct. 25. SDA is ...
China is building up its space capabilities at an “incredible rate”—and it has done so by embracing needed principles the U.S. has historically been slow to adopt, top Space Force officials said. Speaking at the Mitchell Institute’s Spacepower Security Forum, both Vice Chief of Space ...
The Space Force is poised for two major changes in November, with a new Chief of Space Operations taking command early in the month and the service’s component for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command standing up a few weeks later. Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David ...
The Space Force must be given leadership over disparate elements of the U.S. military's joint all-domain command and control effort, according to a paper by AFA's Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. JADC2 is the Defense Department's effort to improve command and control by collecting more ...
The Department of the Air Force’s biggest acquisition accounts generally kept costs down in fiscal 2021 compared to the year before, even as the programs' projected timelines continued to lengthen, a new DAF report found. In particular, the report showed significant cost savings in the ...
The effects of Russia’s 2021 anti-satellite weapon test on just one commercial satellite constellation illustrate the urgency of just one aspect of space safety. A “dominating commercial space market” is also expanding the scope of space missions to include the likes of commercial human spaceflight and ...
