The U.S. military accelerates its militarization of space, with a new generation of satellites set to be launched.

The US military is accelerating its militarization of space to dominate globally.

Secretary of the Air Force Troy E. Mendenhall, along with Senator Kevin Cramer (Republican from North Dakota), posed with leaders of the Vandenberg Space Force in front of the satellite processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The background featured the first batch of satellites from the Space Development Agency, photographed on August 28, 2025. The first batch will be launched from Vandenberg Space Port after September 10. This will be the first 21 out of 126 satellites in the initial transport layer, which will be placed into low Earth orbit to provide next-generation capabilities for joint warfighters to support ground missions through a distributed combatant space architecture.

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