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The L3Harris-built Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) satellite launched on a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket Aug. 12 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. NTS-3 will be used for a variety of experiments to include testing on-orbit, next-generation technologies that assist warfighters in contested environments. (L3Harris photo.)

After delays, Space Force launches testbed satellite for experimental PNT capabilities

The NTS-3 satellite will spend the next year conducting about 100 experiments focused on advancing and augmenting the Pentagon's GPS capabilities.

4 days ago By Mikayla Easley

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Katharine Kelley: Why DOD’s HR Revolution Might Start in Space

Kate Kelley, Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Personnel for the U.S. Space Force

Aug 11, 2025

Global network concept art. (Getty Images)

Space Force, IC prep to launch more sats that could enable future GMTI missions

The GMTI satellites will also help inform the Space Force's efforts to develop a constellation that can track targets flying through the air, known as AMTI.

Aug 5, 2025 By Mikayla Easley

Charleen Laughlin, vice director for the Joint Staff J-6, speaks to a Marine about the joint light tactical vehicle during the Advanced Professional Executive Senior Executive Orientation Program at Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, Sept. 13, 2024. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jordan Searls)

Space Force gets new senior leader for cyber and data

Charleen Laughlin has moved from the Joint Staff to take on a new role with the Space Force.

Aug 4, 2025 By Jon Harper

Slingshot’s new AI-enabled tool helps Space Force train for satellite ops

The Space Force has already tested the company's new TALOS tool to create realistic simulations of satellites and their behaviors.

Jul 29, 2025 By Mikayla Easley

The U.S. Space Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission Seven successfully landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, March 7, 2025. The X-37B landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, to exercise the service’s ability to recover the spaceplane across multiple sites. (U.S. Space Force courtesy photo)

Next X-37B space plane mission will test laser communications, quantum sensor for US military

This will be the eight mission for the Boeing-built space plane.

Jul 28, 2025 By Jon Harper

Rendering of the Resilient Missile Warning Tracking (MWT) architecture in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). (Illustration courtesy of BAE Systems)

Space Force launches new unit structure to align acquisition, operational functions

The new units — known as System Deltas — will consolidate Space Systems Command program offices for missile warning and space-based sensing and targeting.

Jul 25, 2025 By Mikayla Easley

WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 15: Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) gives a statement after a policy luncheon with Democratic senators at the U.S. Capitol on July 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Senators urge Pentagon to review GPS risks to national security and infrastructure

Sen. Maggie Hassan told DefenseScoop that she aims to help “lay the groundwork for the next generation of position, navigation, and timing systems that will keep us…

Jul 22, 2025 By Brandi Vincent

Airmen assigned to the 138th Electromagnetic Warfare Squadron, Colorado Air National Guard, perform maintenance on a high mobility antenna during Resolute Space 2025 at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, July 12, 2025. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jade M. Caldwell)

Space Force training for on-orbit warfare in inaugural Resolute Space exercise

Over 700 Space Force guardians are participating in Resolute Space 2025, where they conduct orbital warfare, electromagnetic warfare, cyber warfare and more.

Jul 16, 2025 By Mikayla Easley

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing a series of executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump names vice chief nominees for Space Force, Air Force

Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton has been nominated to serve as vice chief of space operations, while Gen. Thomas Bussiere was tapped to be the new Air Force…

Jul 16, 2025 By Mikayla Easley