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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United Launch Alliance plans a 2024-03-28 launch of NROL-70 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, as the final flight of the Delta program.
Turion Space has received approximately $7,000,000 in contracts from NASA, the U.S. Space Force, and the U.S. Air Force to develop data-collecting and satellite-servicing technologies.
SpaceX will launch 23 Starlink internet satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, with a launch window of 7:20–11:51 p.m. PT (10:20 p.m.–2:51 a.m. ET, 0220–0651 UTC).
SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on 2024-03-04.
Kanyini will be launched onboard SpaceX’s Transporter-11 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA.
Sierra Space’s $1,300,000,000 defense backlog includes a $740,000,000 deal announced in January to produce 18 missile-tracking satellites for the U.S. Space Force’s next-generation missile-tracking satellite network built by the Space Development Agency.
The Space Force’s 2025 budget proposal earmarks $40,000,000 for space access, mobility and logistics (SAML) services.
Defense Unicorns won a $15,000,000 contract to update IT systems and software applications used to support rocket launches at U.S. Space Force ranges.
The two satellite cell towers were launched on the Transporter-10 rideshare mission by SpaceX on 2024-03-04 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The two nanosatellites were launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Space Systems Command is the U.S. Space Force field command responsible for acquiring, developing, and delivering resilient capabilities to protect the United States’ strategic advantage in, from, and to space.
Space Systems Command, the National Reconnaissance Office, and United Launch Alliance are preparing to launch the NROL-70 mission aboard the final Delta IV Heavy rocket no earlier than 2024-03-28 from Space Launch Complex-37B at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The $29,400,000,000 request for the Space Force represents a $600,000,000 cut from the $30,000,000,000 the Defense Department sought for the service in fiscal year 2024.
The Space Force’s fiscal year 2025 budget does not create new funding lines for satellite-based Earth monitoring, in-space surveillance, or on-orbit satellite servicing.
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) secured a $444,000,000 contract to modernize launch instrumentation and information systems at U.S. Space Force launch sites in Florida and California.
The Pentagon’s fiscal year 2025 budget request totals $849,800,000,000 and includes $29,400,000,000 for the U.S. Space Force.
The Pentagon projected $29,500,000,000 for the Space Force in fiscal year 2025 in its projections last year.
Work under the DTAMM contract will be performed at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday, 2024-03-10 at 9:09 p.m. PT.
The Falcon 9 launch on 2024-03-10 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.