The US Space Force

[bobbymike]

White House Paves Policy For Nuke-Powered Rockets & Reactors On Moon - Breaking Defense

Administration officials were quick to stress that US pursuit of space-based nuclear power sources has absolutely nothing to do with building nuclear weapons in space.

breakingdefense.com

 

[Flyaway]

Russia tests direct-ascent anti-satellite missile

Russia has conducted a test of a direct-ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) missile.“Russia publicly claims it is working to prevent the transformation of outer space into a battlefield, yet at the same

www.spacecom.mil

 

[fightingirish]

Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Guardians.
Source:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1340054052894326785

View: https://twitter.com/SpaceForceDoD/status/1340054052894326785?s=19

 

[Rhinocrates]

The organizational chart is going to change over the years, but the unit "Space Delta Nine" looks already mysterious.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1320045721232547845

View: https://twitter.com/ussfspoc/status/1320045721232547845?s=20

Maybe just because it reminds me of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

"We have just folded space from Ix. Many new machines on Ix. New machines. Better than those on Richesse."

 

[TomcatViP]

the name was selected partially as a tribute to the original motto of the 1983 Air Force Space Command: “Guardians of the High Frontier.”
[...]
“The name Guardians connects our proud heritage and culture to the important mission we execute 24/7, protecting the people and interest of the U.S. and its allies,” read another tweet.

Trump's Space Force rips off Marvel, names its soldiers "Guardians"

The United State's Space Force has chosen the name Guardians for its soliders, which rings a bell for Guardians of the Galaxy Fans.

consequenceofsound.net

 

[Grey Havoc]

We also have this thread:

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/the-us-space-force.30157/

The new search engine can still be a little temperamental at times...

 

[TomcatViP]

@Grey Havoc : Let's hope Mods will merge both threads (if that don't bother @Flyaway) since it's confusing.

 

[GTX]

Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Guardians.
Source:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1340054052894326785

View: https://twitter.com/SpaceForceDoD/status/1340054052894326785?s=19

 

[TomcatViP]

Toward a safe continuation and evolutionary refined Space Force doctrine (Congrats to newly confirmed Defense secretary Lloyd Austin) :

“For space in particular, I would account for the continued growth of adversary space and counterspace capabilities, as well as the adequacy of the steps the United States has taken to improve the DoD space enterprise to address growing threats and challenges in the domain. I would also emphasize the role of resilience in improving our warfighting capability, (emphasis ours) the role of allies and partners, and space-related information sharing. Lastly, I would highlight growing commercial activities in space which can both be threats to and opportunities for the United States.”

Austin Signals Shift Back To Focus On Space Resilience - Breaking Defense

The Biden team wants to "start to lean away from ... the pugilistic aspects" of Trump-era space policy, says one well-placed insider.

breakingdefense.com

 

[fightingirish]

IMHO the USSF should modify the new rank name "Specialist" , so you can better distinguish the E-1 to E-4 ranks, even if you address them with Specialist (last name).

E-1 Specialist (Basic)
E-2 Specialist
E-3 Specialist (First Class)
E-4 (Senior) Specialist
...

[...]
Instead of "airman," junior enlisted members between E-1 and E-4 will be called specialists, according to the document. The Army is the other service with a specialist rank, for troops in the E-4 paygrade.
While the Air Force has staff and technical sergeants, the Space Force E-5 rank will be known as sergeant, followed by technical sergeant for E-6. Officer ranks -- second lieutenant to general -- will remain the same as its sister service.
The new rank structure takes effect Feb. 1, the memo states.
[...]

Source: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/01/29/these-are-official-space-force-ranks.html

 

[Grey Havoc]

The Space Force wants a more resilient architecture

Col. Russell “Russ” Teehan, portfolio director at the Space and Missile Systems Center, says the Space Force is working with the Space Development Agency and other partners on building a more distributed space architecture.

www.c4isrnet.com

 

[bobbymike]

Biden Admin Expected To Rein In 'Space Power' Push - Breaking Defense

Instead of focusing on the pressing need to shore up vulnerabilities in current and near-term space capabilities, says one critic, Space Force and SPACECOM are "all off trying to train for how they're going to go fight a space war."

breakingdefense.com

Cui bono?

 

[TomcatViP]

Space Force general says success of private companies like SpaceX helps U.S. secure the space domain

Companies and investors continue to pour into the space industry, after the recent success of private ventures of interest to the U.S. Space Force.

www.cnbc.com

 

[TomcatViP]

In year two, the Space Force is focused on international partnerships

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond said the service will work on integrating with allies and establishing norms for behavior for space.

www.c4isrnet.com

 

[VTOLicious]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1358812492865163265

View: https://twitter.com/ValerieInsinna/status/1358812492865163265?s=19

 

[sferrin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1358812492865163265

View: https://twitter.com/ValerieInsinna/status/1358812492865163265?s=19

Wow. That dude is a real piece of work. A few quotes:

"More than anything except the Border Wall and ICE, the Space Force has the stink of Trump on it."

"The persistence of the Space Force can read, I think understandably, as a betrayal of by the Biden administration to the project of unmaking the Trump era. I think having a branch of the military entirely dedicated to Space War is destabilizing, and it doesn't help that case that Trump conflated NASA's civilian & scientific missions with Space Force's formally more violent one."

"Trump's single skillset is grabbing attention, and with the Space Force he managed to take an existing idea and then spin it as his own unique tool of domination."

 

[In_A_Dream]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1358812492865163265

View: https://twitter.com/ValerieInsinna/status/1358812492865163265?s=19

Wow. That dude is a real piece of work. A few quotes:

"More than anything except the Border Wall and ICE, the Space Force has the stink of Trump on it."

"The persistence of the Space Force can read, I think understandably, as a betrayal of by the Biden administration to the project of unmaking the Trump era. I think having a branch of the military entirely dedicated to Space War is destabilizing, and it doesn't help that case that Trump conflated NASA's civilian & scientific missions with Space Force's formally more violent one."

"Trump's single skillset is grabbing attention, and with the Space Force he managed to take an existing idea and then spin it as his own unique tool of domination."

Thankfully basement nerds aren't in charge of National Security, that write-up stinks of political bias. Little surprised Val would endorse it, but on the other hand, I'm not.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Apparently the Biden administration has shelved attempts to dissolve the Space Force for the moment because of insufficient support for the move from Democrats in Congress, as well as opposition from the new SecDef. Doesn't mean that they won't continue to try to undermine it in the meantime though...

 

[sferrin]

Apparently the Biden administration has shelved attempts to dissolve the Space Force for the moment because of insufficient support for the move from Democrats in Congress, as well as opposition from the new SecDef. Doesn't mean that they won't continue to try to undermine it in the meantime though...

For sure.

 

[bobbymike]

Apparently the Biden administration has shelved attempts to dissolve the Space Force for the moment because of insufficient support for the move from Democrats in Congress, as well as opposition from the new SecDef. Doesn't mean that they won't continue to try to undermine it in the meantime though...

For sure.

Everything bad cause Orange Man Bad should not make policy are these children?

 

[Moose]

There's a Space Force Journal now, for those who might be interested:

Homepage

The Independent Forum of the Space Force Foreword Editorial Foreword January 30, 2021 by SFJ .blabber_inline_459353785{background-image...

spaceforcejournal.org

 

[Grey Havoc]

Despite Funny Name Ideas, US Space Force Has a Serious Mission - Slashdot

Friday the U.S. military released 400 other names it considered for Space Force's soliders (before settling on the word "guardians.") Politico writes that the names were "crowdsourced" from the U.S. military's space workforce, and "Troops clearly had fun with their submissions, which included...

tech.slashdot.org

 

[Grey Havoc]

The Space Force considers a new mission: tactical satellite imagery

The head of the Space Force says the service is studying whether it should take up the mission of providing beyond-line-of-sight targeting with satellites.

www.c4isrnet.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

SDA to launch several demonstration satellites in 2021

The agency is slated to begin launching its satellites in 2022, but first it plans to send up several demonstration satellites to pave the way for various technologies.

www.c4isrnet.com

 

[Flyaway]

This article covers their 2021 launches.

SpaceX planning launch of two Falcon Heavy missions in summer and fall – Spaceflight Now

 

[bobbymike]

JUST IN Space Command NASA to Sign Agreement on Planetary Defense

JUST IN Space Command NASA to Sign Agreement on Planetary Defense

www.nationaldefensemagazine.org

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Now add Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore to build a gigaton nuke for asteroid deflection

 

[Nigelhg]

BAE Systems positioning for growth in military GPS following Collins acquisition

BAE Systems announced on Feb. 17 that it won a $247 million contract to design and manufacture advanced GPS receivers.

spacenews.com

Space force is buying advanced m code capable GPS tech.

 

[Dilandu]

Now add Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore to build a gigaton nuke for asteroid deflection

Gigaton bomb would require roughly 200 ton of payload capability.

 

[Grey Havoc]

L3Harris leaped from tracking weather to tracking missiles, cracking a competitive field

An accidental discovery in 2017 set L3Harris on a multiyear journey to build hypersonic missile tracking satellites for the military.

www.c4isrnet.com

Space Operations Command taps LinQuest for support

Under the $200 million contract, LinQuest will provide support for Space Operations Command, which oversees the operations of military constellations like the Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellites.

www.c4isrnet.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

With regards as to the U.S. Space Command:

Alabama governor welcomes federal review of Space Command’s proposed home

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday said she welcomes a federal review of the decision to move the Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Huntsville, saying she believes it will confirm the decision to move it to her state.

www.militarytimes.com

 

[In_A_Dream]

Is that a political move or to keep it close to GSC?

 

[Grey Havoc]

Political, it would seem.

 

[Rhinocrates]

Now add Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore to build a gigaton nuke for asteroid deflection

Gigaton bomb would require roughly 200 ton of payload capability.

Fragmenting an asteroid would simply turn a rifle into a shotgun. Apart from very long-term methods like gravity tractors, IIRC thinking is now focussed on setting off a smaller nuke to one side of an object, vaporising its surface layers on that side to change its trajectory. With large or fast-moving objects that are already close, it could be done incrementally, using multiple charges placed in a 'roadway'.

 

[In_A_Dream]

Now add Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore to build a gigaton nuke for asteroid deflection

Gigaton bomb would require roughly 200 ton of payload capability.

Fragmenting an asteroid would simply turn a rifle into a shotgun. Apart from very long-term methods like gravity tractors, IIRC thinking is now focussed on setting off a smaller nuke to one side of an object, vaporising its surface layers on that side to change its trajectory. With large or fast-moving objects that are already close, it could be done incrementally, using multiple charges placed in a 'roadway'.

We should have pre-positioned asteroids with propulsion devices attached that can easily be re-routed to impact those that cross Earth's orbital path.

 

[Dilandu]

Fragmenting an asteroid would simply turn a rifle into a shotgun.

Irrelevant, since the momentum would be changed enough that it would miss the Earth. Not to mention that small fragments would more likely to burn completely in atmosphere.

 

[Dilandu]

We should have pre-positioned asteroids with propulsion devices attached that can easily be re-routed to impact those that cross Earth's orbital path.

"Easily re-routed" is the hardest thing. Asteroids are massive. To move them sufficiently out of oribt, you need extraordinary amount of delta-v. And they aren't exactly the best controllable missiles, due to uneven shape, differences in density and composition.

 

[TomcatViP]

Laser beaming to vaporize surface layer and... time.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Report broadens conversation on space militarization and Space Force satellite defense

The Center for Strategic and International Studies outlines the various threats posed to space systems and the strategies the Space Force can adopt to counter them.

www.c4isrnet.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Space Force launches experimental research payload

A sounding rocket, carrying an experimental research payload for the Air Force Research Laboratory, launched from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

www.c4isrnet.com

 

[aonestudio]

DoD space agency to award multiple contracts for up to 150 satellites

The Space Development Agency will solicit bids for an upcoming procurement of up to 150 satellites to be launched in late 2024.

spacenews.com