President Donald Trump announces the Golden Dome missile defense shield alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Sen. Kevin Cramer, and Sen. Dan Sullivan in the Oval Office in May 2025. A revolution ...

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

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The modern U.S. Air Force traces its roots back to 1907 — ...

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman speaks at the Air, Space & Cyber Conference at National Harbor, Md. Sept 23, 2025. Credit: U.S. Air Force NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The U.S. Space Force ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Space Force is rolling out a new naming scheme for its satellites, cyber tools and other space-warfare systems, a move aimed at giving its arsenal the kind of recognizable ...

The U.S. Space Force is close to wielding new weapons designed to jam Chinese and Russian satellites in orbit, according to new Space Force data published by Bloomberg this week. The new weapons, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — As Russia held its Victory Day parade this year, hackers backing the Kremlin hijacked an orbiting satellite that provides television service to Ukraine. Instead of normal programing, ...

The Air Force’s ASM-135 missile test in 1985 was the first kinetic destruction of a satellite in orbit. It would not be the last.