Aviation Week — The U.S. Space Force is overhauling its training systems and doctrines. The Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (OTTI) merges virtual environments with live ranges to ready personnel for on-orbit conflict.
USSF Issues Canada Space Command-and-Control RFI
Aviation Week — The U.S. Space Force is conducting market research for a potential foreign military sale (FMS) to Canada of command-and-control (C2) capabilities. The new enterprise-level system would upgrade Canada’s currently fragmented capabilities and processes
Project Kuiper Becomes Amazon Leo Ahead of LEO Broadband Service Debut
SpaceNews — Project Kuiper has shed its seven-year-old code name, emerging as “Amazon Leo” as the company nears the start of initial broadband services from the low Earth orbit constellation next year.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Sticks Landing in Key Milestone
Washington Post — The successful second launch represents a major step forward for Jeff Bezos’s rocket company as it seeks to catch up with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
New Report: Space Force Must Take ‘Decisive’ Steps Toward Dynamic Operations
Air and Space Forces Magazine — According to a new report from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, the U.S. Space Force should take bold, decisive steps quickly to develop the capabilities and architecture needed to support more dynamic operations in orbit and counter Chinese aggression and technological progress.
US Space Force Deploying Ground-Based Jammers to Counter Chinese, Russian Surveillance
The Defense Post — Called Meadowlands and the Remote Modular Terminal (RMT), the systems join the older Counter Communications System. Unlikethat larger system, the new jammers are smaller, more mobile, and can be controlled remotely from anywhere in the world.
Space Force Rebrands Operations Command as Combat Forces Command
Air and Space Forces Magazine — “This redesignation aligned the command’s name with its core purpose of forging combat-ready Space Forces for America and its allies, and the evolution of the United States Space Force as a warfighting service,” the command said in a statement.
Aerospace’s SPARTEND Integrates Space-Cyber Threat Knowledge with Autonomous Detection
The Aerospace Corporation has developed proactive cybersecurity measures to deliver a comprehensive, adaptive defense system against emerging space cyberattacks.
On the eve of the ISS’s 25th anniversary, humanity stares down a gap in its presence in space
On Nov. 2, 2000, the Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft docked with the Zvezda module of the International Space Station. On board were Roscosmos cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev and NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd.
SpaceX makes case for why it will land American astronauts on the Moon
Less than two weeks after acting NASA Administrator and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy publicly announced that he plans to “open up the contract” for getting American astronauts back to the surface of the Moon, SpaceX is making a case for why they should lead the way.