The Space Force’s next national security launch will send the service’s newest GPS satellite up into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, while provider Space X will attempt to recover the booster for the first time after a natsec-related launch. The service’s third GPS III satellite is scheduled ...

Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) has embarked on an ambitious effort to employ digital modeling and engineering techniques across the service’s myriad programs, in the hopes that these technologies will speed up program lifecycles and improve long-term sustainment. Earlier this spring, AFMC ...

House and Senate Armed Services lawmakers appear mostly aligned in their marks of the fiscal year 2021 defense authorization bill when it comes to the Air Force’s request to retire nearly 100 legacy aircraft. In keeping with tradition, the two committees’ versions of the FY ’21 National ...

The Space Development Agency (SDA), established in 2019, must be transferred from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to the U.S. Space Force by the start of fiscal year 2023, the Senate Armed Services Committee’s defense authorization bill markup states. The committee released the full text ...

The contractor of the U.S. military’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter paused deliveries in early June for three weeks to investigate damage on the system that protects the aircraft’s engine from lightning strikes, but has since resumed deliveries. Damage was discovered on a tube of an F-35A’s ...

Relativity Space, a Los Angeles-based space startup using 3D-printing and artificial intelligence techniques to build launchers, has signed a right of entry agreement (RoE) with the Air Force’s 30th Space Wing in the first step to eventually launch rockets from Vandenberg Air Force Base, ...