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Iran Exposed a New Reality for U.S. Air Power

For thirty years, American wars have contained a quiet assumption: that the skies were uncontested. From Grenada and Panama, through Desert Storm, [...] More

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Inside NTS-3: The Satellite Aiming to Reinvent GPS

“The need for accurate and uninterrupted PNT (Positioning, Navigation and Timing) has never been more essential to our warfighters who operate in GPS [...] More

Golden Dome: A Multi-Billion Dollar Space Gamble

"I think the real technical challenge [for the Golden Dome space-based missile defense system] will be building of the space-based interceptor. That [...] More

The Many Parts of Trump's Golden Dome Missile Defense Plan

“The Golden Dome for America Industry Summit will be held on June 11, 2025 at the Von Braun Center downtown Huntsville, Ala., at the UNCLASSIFIED [...] More

Space: A Final Frontier for National Security?

Space: A Final Frontier for National Security?

EXPERT INTERVIEWS — The domain of space has become essential to 21st-century life, given the extent to which communications and navigation are now [...] More

Could Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Lead to Nuclear Weapons in Space?  

“The only time I can think of any history of the United States where we have gone after something this complex [President Trump’s “Golden Dome” for [...] More

U.S. Mission in Space: Maintaining Credibility to Deter

“Space is a warfighting domain. Therefore, the Space Force cannot simply be a support element. It is our job to contest and control the domain [...] More

In Washington, Fears of Russian Nukes In Space

“The most important domain is space. Space is the critical domain because it enables all terrestrial advantage. And that’s what leads to top-down [...] More

When U.S-China Competition Reaches Outer Space   

When U.S-China Competition Reaches Outer Space   

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — A race for control of space is underway, and just as on earth, the U.S. and China are the top competitors. [...] More

Training for a Combat Ready Force in Space

“We used to fly satellites a long time on orbit. We weren’t thinking about combat attrition. Likewise, we weren’t thinking about space operations in [...] More

Chinese and Russian Space Pursuits Are Picking Allied Pockets

OPINION — India’s breakthrough lunar landing showed that our free world economies are in an age of healthy research, experimentation, and growth with [...] More

Advantage in Space is Mission Critical

“Operations to deny adversary hostile use of space could originate in any domain and target on-orbit, ground, cyber, and/or link segments to reduce [...] More

A Journey Through Space Command

OPINION — “The DoD [Department of Defense] seeks to accelerate space-relevant technology development across the commercial space enterprise through [...] More