The force has named satellites and ground systems after mythological creatures, ghosts and Norse pantheon, to name a few.

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond (left) hands the flag of the new Space Systems Command to Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein (right) during an Aug. 13 assumption of command ceremony at Los Angeles ...

Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant, commander of Space Systems Command (left) met with Brig. Gen. Anthony Mastalir, commander, U.S. Space Forces Indo-Pacific, at the Aerospace Corporation campus in El Segundo, ...

A little more than a century ago, the US Army Air Service came up with a scheme for naming the military’s multiplying fleet of airplanes. The 1924 aircraft designation code produced memorable names ...

An artist's rendering of networked, collaborative and autonomous weapons, with each communicating with the others. (U.S. Air Force illustration/Chris Quinlan) The Air Force is asking Congress for more ...

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond speaks at a ceremony to commemorate the first birthday of the U.S. Space Force on Dec. 18, 2020, in Washington. The service announced acquisitions ...

At the ripe age of five, it is clear that the United States Space Force, while dominated by old thinking, still doesn’t know what it wants to be when it grows up, and is split among multiple different ...

An F-15E Strike Eagle painted in the heritage colors of it's P-47 Thunderbolt predecessor takes off from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England Feb 6. The 48th Fighter Wing officially unveiled the ...

Early last month, a member of the US Air Force donned a virtual reality headset and scanned a 3D map of a desert landscape. He saw a speeding object that algorithms warned was likely a cruise missile.

One of the promises of remotely crewed systems is that they could be a force multiplier for the military, either allowing it to increase force structure without a proportionate increase in personnel ...

Traditional magnetic separators, however, present a challenge: they generate a magnetic force that is very high near the side of the vessel closest to the magnet and decreases rapidly with distance.