Space Force wants to give systems familiar nicknames. It unveiled the themes for those names with bright, colorful playing card graphics.

The force has named satellites and ground systems after mythological creatures, ghosts and Norse pantheon, to name a few.

A little more than a century ago, the US Army Air Service came up with a scheme for naming the military’s multiplying fleet of airplanes. The 1924 aircraft designation code produced memorable names ...

Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant, commander of Space Systems Command (left) met with Brig. Gen. Anthony Mastalir, commander, U.S. Space Forces Indo-Pacific, at the Aerospace Corporation campus in El Segundo, ...

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond (left) hands the flag of the new Space Systems Command to Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein (right) during an Aug. 13 assumption of command ceremony at Los Angeles ...

An artist's rendering of networked, collaborative and autonomous weapons, with each communicating with the others. (U.S. Air Force illustration/Chris Quinlan) The Air Force is asking Congress for more ...

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond speaks at a ceremony to commemorate the first birthday of the U.S. Space Force on Dec. 18, 2020, in Washington. The service announced acquisitions ...

An F-15E Strike Eagle painted in the heritage colors of it's P-47 Thunderbolt predecessor takes off from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England Feb 6. The 48th Fighter Wing officially unveiled the ...

One of the promises of remotely crewed systems is that they could be a force multiplier for the military, either allowing it to increase force structure without a proportionate increase in personnel ...

Naming weapon systems to give insight into its purpose or the branch’s culture is not new within the U.S. military. (DVIDS) The U.S. Space Force released names of space weapon systems to better link ...