Entity

Space Force

The U.S. Space Force — the military branch responsible for operations in orbit.

As of 21 Oct 2026Last evidence 20 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Space Force Junior ROTC cadets explore space launch careers at Vandenberg [Image 4 of 6] - DVIDS

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • SpaceX launches classified USSF-481 mission for U.S. Space Force from California, marking Vandenberg’s 70th launch of 2026 - Defence Industry Europe

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

All 2 events and claims involving Space Force

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 22 mentions on 21 Oct 2026, against 34 on 29 Sept 2026 (-35%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 15 Oct 2026 (4 changes recorded since 11 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 20 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

952 documents · 156 publishers · 11% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 20 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.113: about 89% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 7 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Space Force

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

SpaceXPentagonEarthNASAFalconUnited StatesChinaFlorida
  • SpaceX · 288 shared documents
  • Pentagon · 238 shared documents
  • Earth · 203 shared documents
  • NASA · 179 shared documents
  • Falcon · 177 shared documents
  • United States · 167 shared documents
  • China · 153 shared documents
  • Florida · 149 shared documents
  • Cape Canaveral · 146 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Force Station · 121 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 22 mentions on 21 Oct 2026 with 34 on 29 Sept 2026 (-35%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +175% from 8 Sept 2026 to 21 Oct 2026, between 6 and 82 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Space Force, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/42ef4c7efb0e4fc79391a06d returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name space force.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Space Force

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Space Force Junior ROTC cadets explore space launch careers at Vandenberg [Image 4 of 6] - DVIDS

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    could not check

  • SpaceX launches classified USSF-481 mission for U.S. Space Force from California, marking Vandenberg’s 70th launch of 2026 - Defence Industry Europe

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    reported by two

Walk the record from Space Force

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Space Force

Entity.

Evidence
952 documents · 156 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 13 Mar 2026, last seen 20 Oct 2026
Measured
11% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
21 Oct 2026
12 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (2)

  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Space Force, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 15 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 14 Oct 2026

  • 15 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: fading to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 14 Oct 2026

  • 14 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 23 Sept 2026

  • 14 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to fading

    Previous state held since 23 Sept 2026

4 changes recorded since 11 Oct 2026, newest first.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 21 Oct 2026.