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

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

It marks the first time newly commissioned Space Force Guardians have graduated Officer Training School (OTS) wearing this ...

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 ...

A generation ago, when former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin promoted the mantra of a “faster, better, cheaper” approach to the agency’s science missions, critics often joked that NASA could only pick ...