President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday launching the process to establish the first U.S. Space Academy.
U.S. Space Forces–Space is expanding allied integration as a seven-nation coalition shifts from information sharing toward combined space operations.
The U.S. Space Force and Japan have completed the second and final launch under their Quasi-Zenith Satellite System-Hosted Payload programme, placing a U.S. space domain awareness sensor aboard Japan’s QZS-7 satellite.
SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace company, has received a $93.7 million U.S. Space Force award to modernize ground-based radar infrastructure.
The Department of the Air Force and Texas have formed an alliance to accelerate commercial space technology for national security missions.
Rocket Lab has won a $397 million U.S. Space Force contract for a new airborne target-tracking constellation.
The U.S. Space Force selected Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory to guide the Space-Based Interceptor program.
The U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX two task orders worth a combined $1.6 billion for 18 Falcon 9 launches.
Rocket Lab has secured a $266 million U.S. Space Force contract for up to 18 suborbital launches tied to U.S. missile defense capabilities.
SES Space & Defense has won a five-year Blanket Purchase Agreement from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to provide managed satellite communications services.
L3Harris Technologies said it is modernizing the U.S. Space Force’s Atlas system to improve monitoring of satellites, space debris and emerging threats in space.
U.S. Space Force Combat Forces Command operationally accepted Meadowlands on June 8, 2026.
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