{"id":47991,"date":"2025-11-22T01:06:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/us-space-force-15-year-plan-to-come-out-by-early-2026-saltzman-says\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T01:06:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:06:04","slug":"us-space-force-15-year-plan-to-come-out-by-early-2026-saltzman-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/us-space-force-15-year-plan-to-come-out-by-early-2026-saltzman-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US Space Force 15-Year Plan to Come Out by Early 2026, Saltzman Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The U.S. Space Force<\/strong> is looking to publish its 15-year plan between now and early next year, according to Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to publish Objective Force 2025 before the end of the calendar year,\u201d he told a Center for Strategic and International Studies<\/strong> forum on Thursday. \u201cThat\u2019s the task I\u2019ve given the staff. Of course, they immediately pushed back, \u2018We can\u2019t possibly do that.\u2019 I think they can. I think the bulk of the work is almost complete. While you may not see a published document before the end of December, I can pretty much tell you that the work will be complete, and we will be in final approvals \u2026 hopefully publish it to stakeholders in early 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll be looking at a time epic out to about 2040,\u201d Saltzman said about Objective Force 2025. \u201cIt\u2019s not everything new that\u2019s needed for 2040. It\u2019s all of the systems between now and 2040. There are systems we are flying today that we will continue to use into 2040. The objective force will account for that. There are some systems we use today that we will wean ourselves off of in the intervening years between now and 2040. The objective force will say that, that we plan to sunset in the 2030-35 time frame, and the new system will be growing at the same time to maintain that mission capability.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Space Force\u2019s 15-year plans, which are to get annual updates, are to be published every five years. The next, in 2030, will examine service system needs out to 2045.<\/p>\n

Objective Force 2025 may include \u201cdynamic space operations\u201d (DSO) for satellite refueling and on-orbit maintenance, depot, and modernization.<\/p>\n

This month, a report by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, \u201cA Broader Look At Dynamic Space Operations: Imposing Multi-Dimensional Dilemmas on Adversaries,\u201d recommended that a replacement for the Northrop Grumman-built Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) incorporate refueling \u201cat a minimum, and, ideally, with the capacity to replace or add mission capability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the future \u201cAndromeda\u201d umbrella contract, Space Force\u2019s Space Systems Command is to undertake the RG-XX program to field a commercial replacement for GSSAP. The GSSAP satellites have used military Satellite Control Network ground stations under Space Delta 6 at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo., and RG-XX is to use those ground stations to minimize the amount of extra training required for ground personnel to operate the satellites.<\/p>\n

RG-XX satellites are to have on-orbit refueling to tamp down the number of RG-XX satellites required for initial operations.<\/p>\n

The Space Force is to task more than one company to build RG-XX satellites, and the constellation may be significantly larger than GSSAP. Five GSSAP satellites maneuver to conduct rendezvous and proximity operations to monitor and inspect other satellites.<\/p>\n

This story was first published by Defense Daily<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Space Force is looking to publish its 15-year plan between now and early next year, according to Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman. \u201cI want to publish Objective Force 2025 before the end of the calendar year,\u201d he told a Center for Strategic and International Studies forum on Thursday. \u201cThat\u2019s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}