spaceforce
nounEtymology From space + force. Coined in analogy to airforce.
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Government, Military, Politics, War A military unit involved with outer space and spaceflight.
- "Wouldn't fit through the window," Lex apologized. "Anyway, a starship's a big responsibility — you're planning to join the spaceforce, aren't you?"1978, Jonathan Fast, Mortal Gods, →ISBN:
- The MSP may eventually become part of a new spaceforce that coordinates the broad range of defensive and offensive space assets. In addition, a new emphasis is being placed upon NASA and the U.S. Air Force to coordinate activity on such a space plane/RLV development.2003, A Charania, “Operational Capabilities and Legal Implications of a Military Space Plane”, in Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space, volume 45, University of California, School of Law, Part 2002:
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- Now, the Federation needed some sort of body to enforce its regulations, but the alphas were unable to agree on how to organize this, so Earth, who had the largest and most advanced spaceforce, offered to establish the Federal Fleet2015, Rachel Searles, The Stolen Moon, →ISBN:
- Synonyms
- spatial force
- Related terms
- space armed forces, space army, space battalion, space branch, space brigade, space command, space company, space corps, space division, space fleet, space flight, space flotilla, space navy, space platoon, space regiment, space squad, space squadron, space task force, space team, space unit, space wing
- Hypernyms
- aerospace force, armed forces, military
- Hyponyms
- SpaceForce, Spaceforce, Space-Force, Space Force, USSF
- Coordinate terms
- aerospace army, aerospace force, aerospace navy, air army, air force, air navy