SpaceX has asked the commission for permission to launch up to 36 times per year from Vandenberg Space Force Base, as well as to conduct up to 12 landings a year at a second launch complex and an offshore landing spot in the Pacific Ocean.

This is the 21st year the USO has honored Service Members of the Year, nominated by their command leadership “for performing extraordinary acts of bravery that exemplify the values of the Armed Forces and the USO,” according to the organization.

The Space Force, with only 9,400 guardians, met its recruiting goals last year, but the Air Force fell 11% shy, according to a commander of the Air Force Recruiting Service at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.

Service members and their families at 14 military installations can now move to their next duty stations using a new streamlined system for shipping their belongings designed to overcome longstanding problems with military moves.

The cold weather assignment incentive pay is a lump sum payment given to airmen and guardians who sign up to serve a yearlong tour in places where the temperature drops 20 degrees below zero.

United Launch Alliance aims to send up the final Delta IV Heavy rocket on the NROL-70 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 37.

The U.S. and Japan proposed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would warn countries against placing nuclear weapons in orbit, as it ramps up pressure on Russia to abandon potential plans to put warheads in space.

The Space Force has taken another step to establish its own identity by rolling out distinctive physical fitness uniforms.

The Air Force requested $29.4 billion for the military’s 4-year-old service branch for fiscal 2025, which begins Oct. 1. That’s roughly $3 billion less than the 2024 Space Force budget, which has yet to be approved by Congress.

A branch of Airbus that specializes in upgrading and overhauling military aircraft has expanded its operations in Mobile, cutting the ribbon Wednesday on a new hangar for an operation that has doubled its workforce in the last few years and continues to add skilled jobs.

If SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy ever finds a home on the Space Coast, what would be the most powerful orbital rocket to ever launch from here is going to have an environmental impact.

Neck tattoos are in, but shaved sides with a bun are out, according to the updated, clarified grooming and uniform regulations for airmen and guardians released recently by the Air Force.

Bad weather conditions on the launch corridor for a human spaceflight from Kennedy Space Center prompted a two-day delay, so SpaceX took the opportunity to roll out and try and shoehorn a launch without humans from nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday.

The Department of Defense is looking for a new home for SpaceX’s Starship, launching the process to determine what the environmental impact would be to allow the world’s most powerful rocket to launch from the Space Coast.

SpaceX had to wait a day, but it ended up knocking out a pristine launch in the wee hours Thursday for Intuitive Machines, aiming to be the first commercial company to successfully make a soft landing on the moon.

The U.S. Space Force canceled a multibillion-dollar program to develop a classified military communications satellite because of increased costs, difficulties developing its payload and a schedule delay, according to a regulatory filing and people familiar with the decision.

A group of senators is again seeking to create a Space National Guard, arguing it would boost readiness and efficiency and retain talent.

The Air Force will add a new command focused on modernization led by a three-star general, create more technical jobs and redesign and rename its training command as part of an overhaul to prepare its troops for future fights, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said.

While NASA is rooting for SpaceX to achieve Starship success so it can land humans on the moon, the U.S. military has plans of their own for the massive rocket that could include launches from Florida’s Space Coast.