A year ago, the leaders of the House Armed Services Committee put the Space Force on notice. The service, they said, was putting too much focus on its operators and not enough on its acquisitions ...

For its annual fitness competition, the Space Force has “Guardian Arena,” which tests both brains and brawn to measure the service’s unique requirements. It’s essentially the Army’s Best Squad ...

U.S. Space Force Senior Master Sgt. Brandi Gonzalez walks the Hap Arnold hallway while wearing the branch’s Service Dress Uniform at the Pentagon, Arlington, Va., Aug. 22, 2025. (U.S. Air Force photo ...

The rolling grasslands and rocky beaches of Vandenberg Space Force Base, home to more than a dozen at-risk species, easily could pass for a peaceful nature preserve — but that's an illusion. The ...

In this episode of Space Minds, host Mike Gruss sits down with Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy, one of the U.S. Space Force’s most influential acquisition leaders and recipient of the SpaceNews Icon Award for ...

KBR has been awarded two task orders worth $103 million to boost strategic decision-making and capability development for the U.S. Space Force. Secured under the Decision Support for Headquarters USSF ...

Gen. Shawn Bratton, the Space Force’s vice chief of space operations, spoke with SpaceNews’ Sandra Erwin as part of an event focused on the Space Force 2040 at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg ...

The number of operational U.S. military satellites has nearly doubled since the Space Force was created in 2019. Now its leaders want to double the size of the service itself. The Space Force, which ...

The U.S. military has quietly taken a historic step in how it treats its hardware in orbit, signing a first-of-its-kind contract to actively pull dead satellites out of low Earth orbit instead of ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The American military often talks about how it has a global reach. We had the chance to talk to the commander of a new unit at Davis-Monthan that has a responsibility that ...