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  • Chief Master Sgt. of the Space Force Roger A. Towberman, speaks at an all call at Patrick Space Force Base, Fla., March 24, 2022. CMSSF took questions from Guardians and Airmen regarding dress and appearance updates, jobs transferring over to Space Force, separate funding from the Air Force, and the Space Force comprehensive fitness test. (U.S. Space Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dakota Raub).

    CMSSF visits Patrick SFB and Cape Canaveral SFS

    Chief Master Sgt. of the Space Force, Roger A. Towberman, visited Patrick Space Force Base and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., March 24 and 25, 2022.
  • Airmen from the 2d Combat Weather Systems Squadron install a Portable Doppler Radar weather system to assist U.S. Space Force Guardians with space launch operations

    Weather Wing provides solution to Guardians

    Airmen from the 2d Combat Weather Systems Squadron traveled to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, Jan. 17 – 21 to install a Portable Doppler Radar or PDR weather system to assist Guardians with space launch operations.The PDR was installed to prevent a gap in environmental data coverage while the 45th Weather Squadron’s WSR-88D Radar is
  • A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off Dec. 7 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. The rocket propelled two Department of Defense Space Test Program satellites into space. (U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti)

    ULA Atlas V launches Space Test Program SAT-6, LDPE-1 into orbit

    At 5:19 a.m., Dec. 7 while many along Florida’s space coast likely slept, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V at Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, powered the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program (STP)-3 mission and two satellites into space.
  • A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s Lucy spacecraft launches from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., Oct. 16, 2021. The spacecraft will be the first to explore Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, which could bring new insight to the history of the solar system. (U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti)

    SLD 45 supports mission to explore Jupiter's asteroids

    A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s Lucy spacecraft launched from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, Oct. 16. The mission will be the first to explore Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, which could bring new insight to the history of the solar system.
  • Retired Chief Master Sgt. Ruth Urbina, a U.S. Air Force Wounded Warrior program ambassador, shares her battle with post traumatic stress disorder with Airmen July 28, 2021, at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida. Urbina served more than two decades in the communications career field. (U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti)

    Wounded warriors share message of resiliency in Florida

    I did not know I got shot,” said the sergeant. “I thought a flare hit my legs.” He was on his second deployment in Afghanistan in July 2011 serving on a combat search and rescue team. His mission was to recover wounded service members. “Going out and getting shot at” was routine, he said, as his unit averaged eight missions a day. On the day a bullet tore through his legs inside an HH 60 Pave Hawk helicopter, U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. August O’Niell, 414th Combat Training Squadron Detachment 1 flight chief in charge of ground operations at Davis-Monthan, Air Force Base, Arizona, said his world changed.
  • A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Space Launch Complex 39A April 23, 2021, at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The rocket launched the four members of Dragon Crew-2 into space. The astronauts will spend six months on the International Space Station performing a variety of experiments and maintenance actions. (U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti)

    Patrick SFB, Cape Canaveral SFS support mission to ISS

    Just before 6 a.m., Friday, a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket carried the four astronauts of Dragon Crew-2 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, into space. The launch is the third commercial crew human space flight mission in less than a year. The crew, which consists of NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, from France, are set to dock with the International Space Station April 24.
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