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The lawmakers sent a letter to Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall asking for STARCOM, the Space Training and Readiness Command, which is one of three Space Force field command units, to be based at Patrick Space Force Base and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Brevard County.

U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott are on board to bring the Space Force’s training headquarters to the Space Coast. So is a bipartisan group that includes U.S. Reps. Bill Posey, Charlie Crist, Stephanie Murphy, Darren Soto, Matt Gaetz and Debbie Wasserman Schultz among others.

A study by the Space Warfighting Analysis Center that determined a multi-layered network of satellites in Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO), highly-elliptical polar orbit, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) is necessary to provide comprehensive ballistic and hypersonic missile warning and tracking.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by Sandra Erwin — April 22, 2022
 
 
 
 U.S. Space Force

BOULDER, Colo. Northrop Grumman has won a contract worth $99.6 million from the U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific to provide mission-critical capabilities for Relay Ground Station-Asia (RGS-A) under which the company will design, develop, integrate, test, and deliver the first of the next-generation relay ground stations to support legacy and future missile-launch and missile-warning detection satellites.

Space Force's 18th Space Control Squadron was "re-designated" on April 13 as the "18th Space Defense Squadron," but will remain SPACECOM's key provider of space domain awareness.

Space Force has established the new 19th Space Defense Squadron to monitor what officials now refer to as "xGEO" space.

Russia and China are developing new space weapons faster than the U.S. can field new constellations. That’s forcing a big rethink on how to keep the lig...

SpaceX launched a classified satellite early Sunday morning for the National Reconnaissance Office, using a flight-proven booster, marking the first time

BOULDER, Colo. – April 19, 2022 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) was awarded a $99.6 million contract by U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific to provide mission-critical capabilities for Relay Ground Station-Asia (RGS-A)....