45th Weather Squadron, 1st Range Operations Squadron Artemis II Launch Operations B-Roll
Members of the 45th Weather Squadron and 1st Range Operations Squadron perform launch operations during the launch of the NASA SLS Artemis II mission at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, April 1, 2026.
The U.S. Space Force is decisively shifting from passively monitoring a congested and contested space domain to actively defending it. At the forefront of this evolution is Bounty Hunter, a ground-based electromagnetic warfare system that enables the service's transition to a more assertive posture in space.