This grant provides support to the WGBH Educational Foundation for a one-hour NOVA documentary that will explore outer space as the new and rapidly expanding military frontier that has emerged as the world’s most essential warfighting domain. In addition to providing historical context going back to Sputnik, the documentary will explain how satellites are the foundation of the modern world, from GPS navigation and the internet to cell phones and traffic lights and from climate modeling and weather prediction to online banking and supply chains. NOVA will embed at the Space Force Command’s headquarters in Colorado Springs and will also be on hand to witness and report on the first military exercise in orbit planned for 2025. The show is scheduled for prime time in early 2026 and the Foundation would be the primary funder.