Space Force to focus training on ‘orbital warfare,’ joint integration
Gen. Gregory Gagnon, head of Space Force Combat Forces Command, said that currently "40 percent of my units do not have a realistic trainer in order to practice on them."
Anduril, Impulse to demo maneuvering satellite, with sights set on Space Force missions
"I just think freedom of maneuver is going to be the enabler for every space mission going forward," said Gokul Subramanian, Anduril's senior vice president of engineering.
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Resolute Space exercise focuses Guardians on countering ‘realistic’ threats to satellites
"If the space domain feels pain, the rest of the Joint Force will likely feel that pain as well," said Lt. Col. Shawn Green, commander of the Space Force's 527 Space Aggressor Squadron.
‘Bunch of SCARS’: Space Force’s Hammett speeds phased array antenna integration
"[T]his capability is so important to where we're headed in the next couple of years, with having the capacity to make the SCN [Satellite Control Network] stand up to all the new systems that are coming and all the new mission requirements that they're going to have," Hammett told Breaking Defense.
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.
Space RCO head sees potential ‘product line’ for orbital warfare satellites
Space RCO Director Kelly Hammett envisions that his shop will feed tech into the Space Force's new effort to contract commercial firms to replace the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites for monitoring the heavens.
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Army to stand up new space career field for enlisted personnel in October 2026
Gainey noted that the MOS 40D mission area will include operating the service's expanding ground-based electronic warfare arsenal for disrupting adversary space and counterspace systems.
New C2 software for mobile satellites will support future orbital warfare ops
'I think there [are] things that we will need to be able to, I guess I'll say, 'dogfight' in space," Lt. Gen. Doug Schiess, commander of Space Forces - Space, the Space Force unit that undertakes operations for US Space Command, told reporters on Wednesday.
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.