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Six soldiers wearing blue face masks walk through the patient care area of an alternate care facility set up as part of the COVID-19 pandemic response.

July 29, 2020

Nominees for USSPACECOM, USNORTHCOM posts testify at confirmation hearing

Air Force Lt. Gen. Glen D. VanHerck and Army Lt. Gen. James H. Dickinson testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee as part of the confirmation process to be U.S. Northern Command commander and commander of the U.S. Space Command, respectively.

U.S. Space Command

July 23, 2020

Russia conducts space-based anti-satellite weapons test

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — U.S. Space Command has evidence that Russia conducted a non-destructive test of a space-based anti-satellite weapon. On July 15, Russia injected a new object into orbit from Cosmos 2543, currently Satellite Catalog Number 45915 in Space-Track.org. 

Rear Adm. Marcus A. Hitchcock, USSPACECOM Director of Strategy, Plans and Policy, signs a space data sharing Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and the Portuguese Republic recently at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.

July 15, 2020

USSPACECOM adds Portugal – a strategic NATO Ally – to SSA Data Sharing cadre

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — U.S. Space Command signed a space situational awareness data sharing agreement this week with the Portuguese Republic marking the 117th partner agreement supporting Space Domain Awareness.

Service members attend training in 2018 at the U.S. Army Space and Missile School, a component of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

June 19, 2020

SMD School earns fully accredited status from TRADOC

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense School recently earned the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command’s fully accredited status.

A missile launches from the ocean amid clouds of smoke.

June 18, 2020

Defense Space Strategy Addresses Militarization, Competition

The Defense Department's newly released Defense Space Strategy addresses new realities in space: great power competition and militarization of the domain, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for space policy said.