SPACECOM exploring tech for future offensive cislunar ops: Chief Scientist
An analyst called the new commitment to pursue cislunar operations a "massive policy change" for the Pentagon.
EXCLUSIVE: US loosens some rules for offensive counterspace ops, wargaming
Some decision-making authorities, previously closely held by the president or secretary of defense, have been delegated to US SPACECOM, according to sources, but military space leaders want more freedom to act.
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Space Force’s new ‘warfighting framework’ says ‘space superiority’ is basis of US military power
The document argues that the US needs to establish space superiority as a precondition for winning a war, and explains that the Space Force does that by exercising "space control."
Space Force takes ownership of first Meadowlands satellite jammer
The program was designed to both to increase mobility and improve the jamming capabilities of the Space Force's legacy Counter Communications System, to include providing multi-frequency jamming in S-band and X-band.
Time for Space Force to ‘clearly say’ it needs ‘weapons in space’: SPACECOM head
"The US and France recently conducted our first ever bilateral rendezvous and proximity operation to demonstrate combined capabilities in space in the vicinity of a strategic competitor spacecraft," SPACECOM head Gen. Stephen Whiting said today.
Counterspace capabilities advancing around the globe: Secure World Foundation
The report finds that Russia has been increasingly successful at blocking Ukraine's use of SpaceX's Starlink communications constellation, citing media reports in December 2024 about a new system specifically targeting Starlink called Kalinka and developed by the Russian Center for Unmanned Systems and Technologies.
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Saltzman: Space Force in ‘pretty good spot’ regarding DoD funding shift
The chief of space operations said the Space Force is examining how to best invest in six categories of counter-space weapons, because China is doing the same.
DoD needs to clarify Space Force roles and missions: Mitchell workshop
The new report cautions the Space Force against an "over reliance" on commercial capabilities and worries that Space Force is not concentrating enough on the need to win future space conflicts not simply "endure" attacks.
Space Force gets loud and proud about warfighting role: 2024 in review
"You are warfighters, whether you carry a gun or not," Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told Guardians on Dec. 10. "You are trained and expected to carry out offensive and defensive actions against military forces of other countries."
Secretive space plane X-37B to test ‘first of a kind’ maneuvers for shifting orbits
US Space Command has been clamoring for new technology to enable "dynamic space operations," which include "sustained" maneuvering that doesn't eat up fuel to allow US military spacecraft and satellites to outrun suspect adversary satellites — or potentially be able to chase those suspect birds down both to assess any threats and possibly take action to neutralize them.
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NATO to define national space contributions to allied warfighting
NATO's planning directorate is creating war games for space activities to work out national contributions, including for offensive capabilities that require allied consensus for use in a conflict.
Army space and missile command bolstering ‘offensive,’ non-kinetic space control chops
Space & Missile Defense Command has been pushing to make space a formal "military occupation specialty" for enlisted personnel wishing to specialize, and has submitted a proposal to that effort to Army personnel leaders to that effect.
EXCLUSIVE: New Joint Force space doctrine clarifies Space Command’s ‘offensive’, ‘defensive’ ops
The new version of Joint Publication 3-14 explains that "offensive and defensive space operations" are supported primarily by "direct capabilities" — that is, "fires that impact an adversary."
DoD space protection strategy: resilience, defense, and offense by another name
The unclassified strategy communicates "our commitment to protect the Joint Force from adversary hostile uses of space," said DoD Space Policy czar John Plumb.