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The First Space Warship For Space Force
The first space warship is under design by the United States Space Force, along with private aerospace companies.
The United States is taking a significant leap forward in space technology with a pioneering project that aims to redefine the way satellites are deployed. Central to this initiative is the development of an orbital aircraft carrier by the forward-thinking startup Gravitics. This endeavor emphasizes the U.S.’s strategic commitment to space as a crucial domain and highlights the increasingly collaborative efforts between private companies and national defense agencies. As global tensions escalate, the U.S. is making a decisive move to ensure its dominance and secure its presence in the space arena.

(US Space Force and Gravitics orbital carrier)
As far as I know, the first warships designed for space in science fiction are those described in Edison's Conquest of Mars (1898) by Garrett P. Serviss:

(The departure of the fleet of electrical ship)
It was a wonderful scene. The polished sides of the huge floating cars sparkled in the sunlight, and, as they slowly rose and fell, and swung this way and that, upon the tides of the air, as if held by invisible cables, the brilliant pennons streaming from their peaks waved up and down like the wings of an assemblage of gigantic humming birds
It was a wonderful undertaking and a strange spectacle. There was a feeling of uncertainty which awed the vast multitude whose eyes were upturned to the ships. The expedition was not large, considering the gigantic character of the undertaking. Each of the electrical ships carried about twenty men, together with an abundant supply of compressed provisions, compressed air, scientific apparatus and so on. In all, there were about 2,000 men, who were going to conquer, if they could, another world!

(The departure of the fleet of electrical ship)
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