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The Space Force's 2040 Blueprint Is Bold Doctrine and Fragile Policy

An outgoing chief just released the most ambitious public planning document the Space Force has ever produced. Its survival past FY27 is an open question. Saltzman Puts a Number on the Space Force’s Future: 30,000 Satellites by 2040The U.S. Space Force on April 15 released unclassified versions

Saltzman Puts a Number on the Space Force's Future: 30,000 Satellites by 2040

The U.S. Space Force on April 15 released unclassified versions of two foundational planning documents, the 68-page Future Operating Environment 2040 and the 104-page Objective Force 2040, during Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman's keynote at the 41st Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. Together they project

Blue Origin Hot-Fires Reflown New Glenn Booster; Launch Set for Sunday

Blue Origin completed a roughly 20-second static fire of all seven BE-4 engines on the "Never Tell Me the Odds" booster at Launch Complex 36 at 7:45 a.m. EDT on April 16, clearing the last major ground milestone before the NG-3 mission attempts the company'