... of reporters ahead of the launch. “One of the things that we’ve learned is the value of reusability, and I think as a Space Force there’s a couple things that we’re really going to value and reusability is one of those and autonomy is another one...
.... In the year that US President Donald Trump laid out his plans for a new ‘Space Force’ branch of the US armed services, he declared that “Space is a war-fighting arena, just like the land, air and sea”. China has...
...-based telescopes. The detection and tracking capability will soon be greatly improved when the Space Fence radar operated by the US Space Force becomes fully functional. This multibillion dollar S-band radar facility, located in the Marshall Islands...
... before it even started. But does this mean that adequate intelligence monitoring of adversary space force dispositions can prevent war on the ground? Orbital space choke points would not be fixed points like on Earth, but would be different...
... its next mission. Virgin Orbit has subsequent launches booked by customers ranging from the US Space Force and the UK’s Royal Air Force to commercial customers like Swarm Technologies, Italy’s SITAEL, and Denmark’s GomSpace. The company’s next...
..., a backup window is available opening at 8:05 pm EDT on Thursday, 16 September, however the latest forecast from the US Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron predicts a 70 percent chance of favorable conditions for liftoff at the Cape Canaveral launch...