Military Space
Military space news from Cosmic Herald — Space Force, satellite warfare, GPS, missile warning, and the growing role of space in national defense.
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Military Space
GAO's New Weapon Systems Report: Hypersonic Missiles Are Still Years Behind Schedule
A new GAO watchdog report finds the Pentagon's three flagship hypersonic missile programs mired in schedule slips and production bottlenecks, as major defense programs now average 12+ years to deliver.
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Military Space
Senate Sets July 16 Hearing to Confirm Space Force's Next Top General
The Senate Armed Services Committee has calendared a July 16, 2026 hearing on Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess's nomination to become the Space Force's third Chief of Space Operations, succeeding Gen. Chance Saltzman.
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Military Space
Space Force Adds Impulse Space and Relativity Federal to Its $5.6 Billion Launch Roster
Space Systems Command admitted Impulse Space and Relativity's Relativity Federal to NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 on July 7, growing the qualified-provider pool to seven and handing each a $5 million task order.
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Military Space
Does the Space Force Need Its Own Lawyers? The Senate Wants an Answer by December 2027
The Senate's draft FY2027 NDAA orders a formal study into whether the Space Force still needs to borrow Air Force lawyers, with findings due by December 1, 2027.
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Military Space
Guardians and Airmen Just Let AI Run Battle Management for the First Time — and It Did Five Jobs at Once
In a two-week Las Vegas exercise called MASH, Space Force Guardians and Air Force Airmen wired six competing AI vendors into one battle-management workflow, and an operator reported doing five to six taskings in the time one used to take.
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Military Space
VICTUS HAZE: How a 16-Hour Launch and a 61-Hour Chase Just Rewrote the Rules of Space Warfare
Over the July 4th weekend, Rocket Lab launched a Space Force satellite in 16 hours 42 minutes, then True Anomaly's autonomous JACKAL-0004 found and imaged it in 61 hours — the first commercial orbital intercept in history.
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Military Space
GAO Watchdog: Pentagon Weapons Now Take 12 Years to Deliver, and Space Programs Are Feeling It Too
A July 2, 2026 GAO report finds Pentagon weapons now take over 12 years to field on average, with a missile-warning satellite delay and Space Force staffing shortages among the warning signs.
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Military Space
Victus Haze: How the Space Force Just Proved It Can Hunt Satellites on Hours' Notice
Rocket Lab's Puma launched 16 hours after notice and, guided only by its own sensors, tracked down and photographed True Anomaly's orbiting Jackal-0004 satellite — a rehearsal for spotting adversary spacecraft with almost no warning.
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Military Space
Space Force Fields 'Meadowlands' Satellite Jammer, Cutting Deployment Gear by Two-Thirds
The Space Force has operationally accepted Meadowlands, an L3Harris-built jammer that shrinks its satellite-warfare kit from 23 cases to seven while matching the anti-satellite push from China and Russia.
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Military Space
Tactical Radio From Orbit: York's 'Dragoon' Proves LEO Can Do GEO's Job
York Space Systems' Dragoon satellite ran five successful two-way UHF tactical-comms demos from low Earth orbit, and coverage indicates the SDA is trimming its satellite buy — reportedly canceling 11 — on the strength of the result.
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Military Space
China Is Filling Low Orbit With Derelict Rocket Bodies — and Three Have Already Exploded
A LeoLabs analysis finds China abandoned 51 spent rocket bodies above 650 km from 2021-2025 — 86% of the global total — and three have already fragmented, seeding debris clouds that will outlast everyone reading this.
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Military Space
Space Force Hands Boeing $2 Billion to Extend the Military's 'Cellphone Network in Space'
The U.S. Space Force awarded Boeing up to $2 billion to build two new MUOS narrowband satellites, dethroning incumbent Lockheed Martin and keeping the military's UHF 'cellphone network in space' alive into the mid-2030s.
