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Hurricane Ian avoids direct hit on MacDill but aims for JB Charleston
Early indications are that Air Force and Space Force units in Florida managed to avoid widespread destruction.
Now boarding: Space Force wants to turn launch ranges into rocket ‘airports’
Space Force launch range officials want their installations to be more like an airport departure terminal.
Liftoff to orbit in under an hour: Space Force launches missile warning satellite
On Tuesday afternoon, a rocket left Cape Canaveral Space Station in a fiery plum to take a fifth missile warning satellite to its constellation. The satellite's job is to provide backup.
By Nathan Strout
Lawmakers, defense officials joust over next-gen ICBM plans
The war over a next-gen ICBM flared up at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
Best pics of the week: April 11, 2021
Arctic Gold at Eielson, jungle training at Schofield, F-22s over Mount Fuji, and more in this week's Frontline Photos.
Last of its kind rocket puts GPS satellite in orbit
A rocket that’s the last of its kind delivered the newest, most powerful GPS satellite to orbit for the Air Force Thursday.
Apollo 11 at 50: Celebrating first steps on another world
Hundreds of millions tuned in to radios or watched the grainy black-and-white images on TV as Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, in one of humanity's most glorious technological achievements.
The Pentagon’s cost assessment office needs to reassess its F-15EX findings
Congress has a lot to consider as it assesses the best path forward for air superiority.
By Douglas Birkey
Industrial base considerations played role in F-15X decision
It seems industrial base concerns were a major factor in picking Boeing over another provider of a fourth-generation capability.
By Valerie Insinna
SpaceX launches Air Force’s best GPS yet, ends banner year
SpaceX has launched the U.S. Air Force’s most powerful GPS satellite ever built.
Trump plans to create unified US Space Command
The move is separate from Trump's goal of creating a "Space Force" as an independent armed service branch.
By Zeke Miller, The Associated Press and Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press