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.
All verified mentions of this organization in source documents.
Space Systems Command is the U.S. Space Force field command responsible for acquiring, developing, and delivering resilient space capabilities and technologies.
Ball Aerospace delivered the MethaneSAT satellite to Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California 2024-02-05.
NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 1:33 a.m. EST on 2024-02-08 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rolled to and stood vertical at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 2024-02-05.
The Falcon 9 launch of NASA’s PACE mission is targeted for liftoff at 1:33 a.m. EST on Thursday, 2024-02-08 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The memorandum of agreement outlines how Phantom and Vaya will work concurrently at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 13 (LC-13).
PACE is scheduled to fly from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday, 2024-02-07 at 1:33 AM EST (06:33 UTC) during an instantaneous launch window.
SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, 2024-02-07 at 1:33 a.m. ET for a Falcon 9 launch of NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission to a sun-synchronous orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin a firm-fixed-price contract valued at $66,000,000 for risk reduction activities and early design work in support of the MUOS Service Life Extension (SLE) program.
Federal ranges Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Kennedy Space Center, and Vandenberg Space Force Base accounted for 51% of FAA-licensed launches in fiscal year 2020 and 78% in fiscal year 2023.
Firefly Aerospace launched the Victus Nox mission for the U.S. Space Force on 2023-09-14, successfully placing a satellite built by Millennium Space into orbit.
Astrotech Space Operations operates a processing facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The memorandum of agreement between Phantom Space and Vaya Space outlines how the two companies will work concurrently at Launch Complex 13 (LC-13) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Two launch service providers have agreed to simultaneously operate from a single launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The MGUE Increment 2 Miniature Serial Interface program is part of a $247,000,000 contract awarded by the U.S. Space Force in 2020.
Phantom Space COO Mark Lester signed a memorandum of agreement with Vaya Space COO Rob Fabian to operate concurrently at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 13 (LC-13).
U.S. Space Force space domain awareness data recorded a burn around 2024-01-20 that raised the spacecraft’s apogee to 597 km.
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Cygnus cargo delivery spacecraft launched to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The SRP-4 awards expand the SRP-4 vendor pool to provide the U.S. Space Force with additional options to deliver suborbital launch services, flight hardware, and technical and concept analyses in support of research and development programs.
The U.S. Space Force X-37B spaceplane launched on its seventh mission on 2023-12-28 on a Falcon Heavy for the first time.