Space Force

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFNS) --  Space Training and Readiness Command officially stood up the Space Force’s first cyber range squadron, the 33rd Range Squadron (RGS), during an activation ceremony on Schriever Space Force Base, Dec. 16. The new squadron, which falls under Space Delta 11, marks a critical milestone in advancing the Space Force’s ability to test, train, and prepare for cyber threats in the contested space domain.    For more than two years, space cyber operations training and testing were conducted under the 11th Delta Operations Squadron/S9. With the activation of the 33rd ...

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFNS) --  The National Space Defense Center has created the NSDC Advanced Concept Experimentation to innovate and optimize the NSDC’s ability to execute the protect and defend mission.The NACE program’s mission is to rapidly iterate and improve space superiority, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance, and defensive cyber command-and-control processes and procedures. NACE is the NSDC’s operationally and tactically focused venue to rapidly improve its ability to execute assigned missions through experimentation, utilizing space warfighters in live-ops and tabletop exercises using current and near-operational capabilities.NACE is the next generation of experimentation within the NSDC designed to focus efforts on a...

WASHINGTON (AFNS) --  In the midst of the U.S. Space Force’s fifth anniversary week, the service’s senior leaders touted Guardian and service accomplishments during the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ “Celebrating the U.S. Space Force and Charting Its Future” event in Washington, D.C., Dec. 17.Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman, Assistant Chief of Space Operations for Future Concepts and Partnerships Air Marshal Paul Godfrey and Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Human Capital Katherine Kelley, participated in keynote and panel discussions with industry experts and leaders. The leaders highlighted the Space Force’s feats since its formation and provided glimpses of what’s next for the service. ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. and COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AFNS) --  U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command and Space Operations Command executed an accelerated timeline to meet a specific warfighter need through a Rapid Response Trailblazer launch. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched this National Security Space Launch mission with a GPS III Space Vehicle aboard, named SV-07, Dec. 16, from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The mission successfully achieved a complex effort across multiple Space Force organizations to pull an existing GPS III satellite from storage, accelerat...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AFNS) --  Space component field command leadership came together to discuss successes and challenges and provide insights into their missions during a panel at the Spacepower Conference in Orlando.As adversaries like China and Russia continue to strengthen their space capabilities, the U.S. Space Force has emerged as an indispensable component of defense strategy, ensuring that space remains secure, resilient and fully integrated into joint warfighting efforts. “You heard the CSO … talk about there might be a little confusion on whether combatant commands or service fight wars, and of ...