Space Force, the cartoonishly named branch of the US armed services, has opened up its first post on foreign land at Osan Air Base in South Korea, the BBC reports.
Space Force Guardians–you forgot that’s what their service members are called, didn’t you?–will monitor activities in Russia, China and North Korea, whose missile tests have alerted the US and its regional allies.
South Korea was likely chosen because of its geographic advantages, but also because a joint forces operations agreement between the two countries makes establishing new operations easier than it would be with other allies. Like the United States prior to Donald Trump establishing the Space Force in 2019, South Korea’s space defense program is operated by the nation’s air force.