AI in the Final Frontier: Space Force Deploys Autonomous Command Software on Experimental Satellites

  Introduction: From Ground-Controlled Assets to Autonomous Orbital Actors Space is no longer a benign environment of predictable orbits and passive assets—it is an increasingly contested, congested, and competitive warfighting domain. In this new reality, the speed of conflict is measured not in minutes, but in milliseconds, where the ability to sense, decide, and act…