Plus: Military leaders push for rapid scaling
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By Sandra Erwin The U.S. Space Force played a direct combat role in the war with Iran, with guardians conducting electromagnetic warfare against an adversary in addition to providing satellite communications, navigation and missile warning to U.S. forces, the service’s top general said Sept 15.
“The Joint Force made it clear: without the Space Force’s capabilities the Joint Force could not, and would not, move forward,” Gen. Douglas Schiess said at the Air & Space Forces Association’s annual conference. This was his first major speech since becoming chief of space operations.
His remarks portrayed the Iran conflict as a significant evolution in the six-year-old service’s combat role, with guardians moving beyond the satellite-based support that has traditionally defined military space operations to deliver combat effects directly against an adversary.
Read More about an anecdote Schiess shared about the role of the Space Force as a warfighting service. |
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“Scaling” has become a watchword for Air Force and Space Force leaders as they push to field more weapons and space capabilities faster and in greater numbers.
Gen. Douglas Schiess, the service’s new chief of space operations, said the Space Force needs “a rapid scaling of both our manpower and space capabilities.” Air Force Secretary Troy Meink has likewise made scale a central part of his force-design message, emphasizing the need to field larger numbers of lower-cost weapons and space systems. Read More. |
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The nuclear microreactor startup Antares won a $161 million Department of the Air Force contract to develop and demonstrate a nuclear reactor for spacecraft.
The award from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration, announced Sept. 11, marks a step in the U.S. military’s effort to move space fission from technology development toward a potential flight capability after decades without an operating reactor in space. Read More.
As military commands contend with growing volumes of satellite data, commercial imagery and other forms of geospatial information are also becoming available to a much broader range of users. Industry executives say that is shifting the advantage from simply having access to the data to being able to make sense of it quickly. Read More. |
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