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Space Force officials take secrecy to new heights ahead of key rocket launch

The first two Vulcan test flights last year used a configuration of the rocket with two strap-on boosters to add an extra ...

Response to new details about Space Force's model for part-timers: 'It makes zero sense'

Space Force and Air Force Reserve leaders announced new details at a town hall hosted earlier this month about the plan to ...
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US Space Force's new deep space radar tracks multiple satellites 22,000 miles away in key test

The U.S. Space Force's powerful new military radar system designed to detect and track objects in distant orbits above Earth ...

First Space Force-sanctioned flight blasts off

The United Launch Alliance launched a Vulcan rocket Tuesday night from Florida as part of the first U.S. Space ...

United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan rocket blasts off on first Space Force-sanctioned flight

ULA's Vulcan is replacing the company's workhorse Atlas 5 rocket and the already-retired Delta 4 family of launchers.
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Vulcan Centaur rocket launches experimental military satellite on its 1st-ever US Space Force mission (video)

The company lofted an experimental navigation satellite on behalf of the U.S. military Tuesday at 8:56 p.m. EDT (0056 GMT on ...
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ULA Vulcan Makes Successful Space Force Debut

Vulcan lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida just before 9 p.m. EDT. The ...

Space Force’s secretive X-37B space plane is heading back to orbit

Space Force is sending the X-37B up once again, this time to test laser communications and a “quantum inertial sensor.” ...
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Burt’s parting thoughts on the Space Force and its next chapter

WASHINGTON — In the nearly six years since the U.S. Space Force was created, Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt has watched the Pentagon’s ...
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Space Force's Golden Dome chief says space-based missile interceptors are possible today. 'We have proven every element of the physics'

The head of the Trump administration's Golden Dome program says the technologies needed to create an ambitious space-based ...

Space Force is training for ‘orbital warfare’ in its largest exercise yet

Hundreds of Guardians are taking part in the Space Force’s Resolute Space 25, meant to test readiness for space-based combat.

Former Space Force analyst who shot and killed Colorado teen sentenced to 54 years in prison

A former U.S. Space Force signals intelligence analyst was sentenced to decades behind bars for shooting two suspected teen ...