The U.S. Space Force (USSF) is the space service branch of the U.S. Department of Defense, established in December 2019. Its primary role is to organize, train, and equip space forces to protect U.S. and allied interests in space by ensuring space superiority. The USSF manages space launch operations, satellite operations, space environment surveillance, and satellite defense, and partners with organizations like NASA on space domain awareness and planetary defense. Key areas of focus include missile warning, satellite communications, and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services.
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Impulse Space secured a National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 contract from the United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command.
After bus integration, the GPS satellite will ship to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, for processing ahead of launch into the operational GPS constellation.
On July 23, 2026, the National Nuclear Security Administration delivered its fifth next-generation Global Burst Detector sensor payload to the U.S. Space Force.
After delivery, the sensor payload will undergo final thermal vacuum testing and hardware integration at the Space Force satellite assembly facility.
The 21 satellites separated from a dedicated Falcon 9 rocket on July 16 from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The U.S. Space Force is seeking to raise the maximum value of its launch-services contract vehicle to up to $30 billion for future national security missions.
The U.S. Space Force's proposed increase in launch-services procurement capacity does not itself authorize new contracts to specific operators.
The U.S. Space Force’s National Security Space Launch Phase 3 uses a dual-lane acquisition strategy.
Raising the contract ceiling would give the U.S. Space Force more flexible procurement capacity for a growing number of missions.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command increased the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 program ceiling to $30 billion on July 21, 2026.
Exotrail’s spacevan orbital transfer vehicle was deployed on SpaceX’s Transporter-16 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Launch pad activations for the three launch architectures are slated at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Wallops Flight Facility, and the Guiana Space Centre.
Ossie will be launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California after final preparations there.
PIGI was the first Unity game engine digital twin to receive fielding authority from the US Space Force.
The U.S. Space Force is accelerating its migration away from large legacy exquisite satellite platforms.
Saber Astronautics says SBMS is used as a protect-and-defend tool across US Space Force Combat Command Deltas.
The U.S. Space Force tracked three objects from the Vikram-1 launch in a 441 x 451 km orbit with a 59.9-degree inclination.
The U.S. Space Force data independently confirmed the success of the Vikram-1 launch.
The US Space Force awarded SpaceX a block of 28 national security launches in April 2025.
The U.S. Space Force aims to accelerate deployment of proliferated constellations such as the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture through its unified PAE framework.