Military space news from Cosmic Herald — Space Force, satellite warfare, GPS, missile warning, and the growing role of space in national defense.
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told a September 14 conference that the US now operates "on-orbit space control weapons," the most direct public acknowledgment yet of an armed American presence in space.
Read the story →In the first week of September 2026, U.S. Space Command ran its first live-fly exercise, moving real satellites across LEO, MEO and GEO to test maneuver warfare instead of just simulating it on paper.
MIT nuclear security researchers say the Pentagon's 'Brilliant Swarms' interceptor satellites would need to weigh 14 times more than proposed, blowing past Golden Dome's own affordability test.
Five months after killing the $6.27 billion OCX program, the Space Force is starting work on a new GPS ground-control architecture while a Lockheed Martin stopgap keeps the constellation flying.
Gen. Douglas Schiess became the Space Force's third Chief of Space Operations and first four-star general in a Sept. 3 ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, succeeding Gen. Chance Saltzman.
The Senate confirmed Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess as the Space Force's third Chief of Space Operations, with a Sept. 3 ceremony at Joint Base Andrews set to formally end Gen. Chance Saltzman's nearly four-year tenure.
Seattle startup Gravitics has landed a Lockheed Martin subcontract to build three flight-ready Orbital Carriers for the Pentagon's Golden Dome missile-defense architecture, with demos slated for 2027-2028.
A new executive order tasks a NASA-chaired commission with designing, in just 120 days, a federal academy meant to train engineers, operators, and future Space Force Guardians.
Pentagon officials reveal that Golden Dome's first large-scale test, held in June at White Sands, validated command-and-control software rather than interceptors — with outside industry watching.
Seven years after standing up, the Space Force Honor Guard has traded its borrowed Air Force dress for a uniform of its own, unveiled publicly at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington, D.C.
The newly activated 1st Electromagnetic Warfare Squadron pairs a decades-old signal-detection system with a brand-new mobile jammer, staffed largely by Air National Guard veterans who transferred into the Space Force last fall.
The U.S. Space Force and Japan finished a two-satellite space-surveillance partnership as QZS-7 lifted off August 10 carrying a second American sensor that now watches geosynchronous orbit over the Indo-Pacific.
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