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The FY 2006 Department of Defense budget slashed funding for a number of military space programs. According to Aviation Week, the Transformational Satellite (TSAT) communications system was cut by $400 million, the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) High was cut by $50 million, and the Space Radar Program lost $125.8 million. All together, that is a cut of over $575 million; as the late Senator Everett F. Dirksen might have said, at this rate pretty soon we are going to be talking about some real money. The cuts were hardly a surprise. The fact that a number of Air Force...

ince the time when man first rubbed two sticks together and sparked fire, it has been a fact of life: He who masters a new technology has an obvious edge over he who doesn't. The United States has mastered the technology required to put into space sophisticated objects that give this country military and economic advantages. Gen. Lance Lord, commander of the Air Force Space Command, is bound and determined to keep that edge. ''America uses and America needs space,'' Lord said last week while in Fort Worth to deliver a speech to the Fort Worth Airpower Council. His command's...

Air Force Space Command officials stood up a space education and training organization here recently that they said will provide the foundation to creating a new generation of space professionals.

Third Country Hacker Uses Korean Computers to Hack U.S Air Force Space Command Korean police and their U.S counterpart began a joint investigation as several computers of an army unit under the U.S Air Force Space Command (SPACECOM) were hacked by an individual in a third country via a Korean firms’ computers in mid-February. The U.S. concluded that it was a serious case and hurriedly dispatched its investigators to Korea. The two countries began to establish a closely cooperative investigation system and have shared information to identify the hacker. The U.S Air Force Space Command is one of nine major...

  First ground-based Midcourse Defense Brigade activatedBy Maj. Laura Kennedy PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (Army News Service, Oct. 23, 2003) – U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command and the Colorado Army National Guard activated the nation’s first ground-based Midcourse Defense Brigade Oct. 16. The brigade will operate the first part of the integrated Ballistic Missile Defense System, which, in concert with sister services, is designed to protect the nation from accidental or intentional limited ballistic missile attacks, officials said. It will be manned both by Colorado Army National Guard and active-component soldiers. The brigade will provide expertise...

Space may become a war zone in the not-too-distant future, a senior US military officer said today, hours after China became only the third country after the US and the former Soviet Union to put a man in space."In my view it will not be long before space becomes a battleground," Lieutenant General Edward Anderson, deputy commander of US Northern Command, said in response to a question at a geospatial intelligence conference in New Orleans."Our military forces ... depend very, very heavily on space capabilities, and so that is a statement of the obvious to our potential threat, whoever that...

Space may become a war zone in the not-too-distant future, a senior US military officer said today, hours after China became only the third country after the US and the former Soviet Union to put a man in space. "In my view it will not be long before space becomes a battleground," Lieutenant General Edward Anderson, deputy commander of US Northern Command, said in response to a question at a geospatial intelligence conference in New Orleans. "Our military forces ... depend very, very heavily on space capabilities, and so that is a statement of the obvious to our potential threat,...

With no fanfare, the Bush Administration is taking military control of what it terms “near space,” thereby laying claim to the area of the Solar System that lies between the Earth and the Moon’s orbit. “A key objective … is not only to ensure U.S. ability to exploit space for military purposes, but also as required to deny an adversary’s ability to do so,” is how the Pentagon’s 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review explained U.S. strategy. Indeed, the success of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq depended on the use of more than 50 military satellites to direct U.S. missiles and...

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