The New York Times — For the past 15 years, a small team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California has been keeping track of the 11 spacecraft orbiting the moon and raising alerts when it seems that 2 of them might cross paths.
NASA targets April 1 to launch astronauts around the moon
NBCNews — Artemis II will be the first mission where NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule carry people. On the 10-day mission, the crew is expected to circle the moon, traveling farther from Earth than any humans have before.
US Space Force clears design milestone, advances missile-warning constellation
DefenseNews — Space Systems Command announced that System Delta 84 completed the preliminary design review for its Resilient Missile Warning and Tracking program, a 10-satellite Epoch 2 medium Earth orbit constellation.
NASA spacecraft makes an uncontrolled plunge back to Earth
CNN — “There’s been a lot more awareness of the importance of spaceborne debris,” said Marlon Sorge, a space debris expert at The Aerospace Corporation.
In Southern California, Aerospace and Defense Are Once Again Taking Off
Commercial Observer In 2026, the South Bay is in a different league compared to where it was just 15 years ago. Dozens of startups have cropped up in coastal Silicon Beach cities. The aerospace and defense industries added 11,000 jobs to L.A. County between 2022 and 2024 alone
Space Force Opens Secretive Space Tracking to Commercial Firms
SpaceNews — One of the U.S. Space Force’s most sensitive missions — tracking foreign satellites and predicting whether they could threaten American spacecraft — is increasingly drawing on commercial data and artificial intelligence.
Space Force Rethinks Satellite Ground Station Strategy
SpaceNews — Under a new strategy, the U.S. Space Force is looking to leverage commercial phased-array technology and walk away from customized designs.
Space Force Officials Preparing for More Budget Growth in 2027
Air and Space Forces Magazine — Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said the U.S. Space Force is looking to add capability in areas like testing and training infrastructure and space weapon systems in fiscal year 2027.
Space Force Modernization Push Runs Into Acquisition Workforce Shortfall
SpaceNews — The U.S. Space Force’s push to accelerate procurement of new systems is running up against a basic constraint: not enough contracting officers and financial managers to execute the work.
Space Force Hopes to Speed Satellites to Track Aircraft, Missiles
Breaking Defense — Gen. Chance Saltzman, U.S. Space Force chief, said the work already done to design a satellite system for tracking ground targets should also help speed Airborne Moving Target Indicators (AMTI) capabilities to orbit.