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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Group 6-39 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
BRO-12 and BRO-13 are scheduled to launch no earlier than March on the Transporter-10 mission aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket via Exolaunch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
BRO-12 and BRO-13 will be launched next March on the Transporter-10 mission aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket via Exolaunch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Exolaunch will integrate the BRO-12 and BRO-13 (Breizh Reconnaissance Orbiter) satellites on a Falcon 9 launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base as part of SpaceX’s Transporter 10 rideshare mission.
The GPS constellation is operated by Space Delta 8, a component of the U.S. Space Force headquartered at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado.
The SPACE FORCE Pathfinder 2 program provided resilient GEO to LEO connectivity and saved more than 60 percent in costs for Federal agencies.
SpaceX launched the Telkomsat Merah Putih 2 mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 20 February 2024 at 20:11 UTC (13:11 EST).
Ed Spitler returned to Artel in 2017 as Head of Satcom, where he led the development of the SPACE FORCE Pathfinder 2 program.
Falcon 9 will launch the Telkomsat Merah Putih 2 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The Space Development Agency is an organization within the U.S. Space Force building a low Earth orbit satellite network to provide global indications, warning, tracking, and targeting of advanced missile threats.
In March 2023 the Space Force allocated Cape Canaveral launch sites SLC-13, SLC-14, and SLC-15 to commercial companies.
The U.S. Space Force is preparing environmental studies that could lead to SpaceX Starship launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Five missile tracking satellites designed and built by L3Harris Technologies successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida as part of the Missile Defense Agency’s Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program and the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 Tracking Layer program.
The NG-20 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on 2024-01-30 at 12:07 pm EST aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Five missile-tracking satellites designed and built by L3Harris Technologies launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
Missile Defense Agency payloads on USSF-124 use medium-field-of-view sensors designed to provide fire-control-quality data for tracking missile trajectory, location, speed, and altitude.
The USSF-124 mission launched the four remaining Tranche 0 satellites of the Space Development Agency’s proliferated satellite architecture.
SpaceX provided a backup launch opportunity for USSF-124 on Thursday, 2024-02-15 at 5:30 p.m. ET.
SpaceX launched the U.S. military classified mission USSF-124 on 2024-02-14.