Feb. 5, 2025 Space Systems Command, Japan launch first bilateral space effort A U.S. space domain awareness payload hosted on Japan's Quasi-Zenith Satellite 6 successfully launched on a Japanese H-3 launch vehicle from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Tanegashima Space Center in Japan on Feb. 2.
Dec. 5, 2024 Space Force activates component field command in Japan The U.S. Space Force activated its sixth service component, United States Space Forces – Japan at Yokota Air Base.
Sept. 12, 2024 4 SOPS team goes the distance A group of 18 personnel from the 4th Space Operations Squadron, a component of Delta 8, headquartered at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado, recently traveled to Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, Hawaii for a contingency operations exercise to test a highly technical piece of equipment known as a
May 18, 2023 Yokota Airmen help deliver U.S. Space Force satellite payload to Japan Members of 374th Mission Support Group and the 730th Air Mobility Squadron provided vital support to a space cooperation initiative between the U.S. and Japan, culminating in the arrival of a spaceflight ready payload to Yokota Air Base on May 10.The satellite payload carries space-based sensors