{"id":288,"date":"2025-09-02T22:25:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/?p=288"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:55:49","slug":"space-command-alaskas-cosmic-defense-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Space Command: Alaska\u2019s Cosmic Defense Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Space Command is huge on X, and Alaska\u2019s got a front-row seat with Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) as a key hub. The U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) runs military ops above 100 kilometers, and Alaskans are hyped about the X-37B spaceplane launch on August 22, testing laser comms and quantum navigation. Posts from @US_SpaceCom celebrated the mission, with locals hyping JBER\u2019s role. One Anchorage user tweeted about Alaska\u2019s skies being our \u201cshield,\u201d sharing a northern lights pic over JBER. But there\u2019s some worry\u2014Gen. Stephen Whiting\u2019s talk of countering Russia and China in space has folks on edge. Some even whisper about \u201csecret weapons\u201d at Fort Greely, though that\u2019s probably just X conspiracy noise. Alaskans are BOTH love and hate the military vibe. Here\u2019s the HTML to embed the X-37B post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">X-37B launch success! Testing laser comms &#038; quantum nav from Alaska\u2019s JBER. The Last Frontier\u2019s leading the space game! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gz1p1HGWgAEwmvo\">pic.twitter.com\/Gz1p1HGWgAEwmvo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; US Space Command (@US_SpaceCom) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/US_SpaceCom\/status\/1962862533838012416\">August 22, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Command is huge on X, and Alaska\u2019s got a front-row seat with Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) as a key hub. The U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) runs military ops above 100 kilometers, and Alaskans are hyped about the X-37B spaceplane launch on August 22, testing laser comms and quantum navigation. Posts from @US_SpaceCom celebrated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[29,30,31],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-news","tag-us-news","tag-us-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}