The Air Force announced last week 250 Space Force guardians with Delta 15, dedicated to protecting and defending operations in space, will be permanently based in Colorado Springs at Schriever Space Force Base.

An intense persuasion campaign is heating up across more than 1,200 miles, from Colorado Springs to Alabama, as both states’ congressional delegations battle over landing the permanent headquarters of the U.S. Space Command.

As conflict with Russia and China looms, special forces in the U.S. military are going through a renaissance, reflected in a new $55 million Special Operations Command North headquarters on Peterson Space Force Base.

U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, an Alabama Republican and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said that he anticipates Trump will make good on a campaign promise by issuing an executive order to relocate the command to Huntsville, Ala.

The El Segundo, Ca., satellite plant makes large satellites for commercial, government and military customers. In 2018 Boeing acquired Millennium Space Systems, which is also based in El Segundo and has received defense contracts for satellites to detect new threats such as hypersonic missiles.

Blue Origin is flying its own hardware as a payload. Even though it doesn’t have a paying customer, a successful flight would mark the first of two required certification flights needed by the U.S. Space Force so it could potentially be awarded lucrative future national security missions alongside SpaceX and ULA.

A SpaceX Starlink launch on Wednesday tied the 2023 record, which saw a combination of 68 launches from SpaceX, three from United Launch Alliance and one from Relativity Space, from pads at either Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

A bipartisan group of 125 lawmakers is urging the leaders of the Senate and House Armed Services committees to maintain the authority of governors over their state’s National Guard forces as the Air Force proposes moving some of them into the Space Force.

The entire Florida National Guard was joined by Guard forces from at least seven other states as they began route clearance, search and rescue, and other missions before dawn Thursday after the fast-moving storm struck Wednesday night.

Friday saw a critical test of the Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. joint venture’s ability to loft spy satellites for the U.S. government. The Pentagon has been putting pressure on the company and levying fines over delays with Vulcan.