spaceforce

A military unit involved with outer space and spaceflight.

Noun

  1. 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...
    • 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...

Origin

From space + force. Coined in analogy to airforce.

Forms

spaceforces space force space-force

Synonyms

spatial force

Hypernyms

aerospace force armed forces military

Hyponyms

SpaceForce Spaceforce Space-Force Space Force USSF

Related

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