Space Force to launch Red Skies exercise this summer

By Apurva Minchekar / May 15, 2023 at 2:18 PM
The Space Force is planning to launch its first Red Skies series of orbital warfare exercises for space warfighters in the summer, Maj. Gen. Shawn Bratton, commander of Space Training and Readiness Command, said last week. The Red Skies mission is to ready space warfighters to attack, defend and support specified targets in support of on-orbit combat and non-combat engagements. The skies exercise will focus on a series of mission planning and execution using orbital warfare modeling and simulation. The...

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