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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In July, Muon Space won a $400,000 Space Force contract to deliver space weather data.
The U.S. Space Force signed a $19,800,000 contract with Microsoft to develop a virtual and mixed-reality training environment.
United Launch Alliance launched its next-generation Vulcan rocket on 2024-01-08 at 2:18 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, 2024-01-09 for a Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Griffin Mission One will carry VIPER after launching aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The Peregrine Lunar Lander lifted off at 2:18 a.m. ET on 2024-01-08 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
United Launch Alliance launched its next-generation Vulcan rocket on 2024-01-08 at 2:18 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
ULA was seeking customers willing to accept the higher risk of launching on its new rocket to win certification from the US Space Force for national security payloads.
The Space Development Agency is an organization under the U.S. Space Force building a mesh network of military satellites known as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
If Cert-2 is successful, ULA expects to obtain Space Force certification and start launching national security payloads by summer.
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan VC2S rocket will launch the Cert-1 certification mission from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan VC2S rocket is planned to launch the Cert-1 certification mission from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
Early drafts of the Space Force’s commercial strategy lacked detail necessary to guide industry partners.
The mission designated Cert-1 is Vulcan’s first launch and the first of two certification flights ULA must perform to gain U.S. Space Force approval to launch national security payloads.
The U.S. Space Force is finalizing a key strategy document for partnering with the commercial space industry.
The Ovzon 3 satellite launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 2024-01-03.
United Launch Alliance rolled out its first Vulcan Centaur rocket to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on 2024-01-05.
The strategy will guide the Space Force’s integration of commercial satellite services into its operations.
The Space Force started working on the commercial strategy in February.
The Space Force strategy will encompass emerging technologies like rapid-revisit imaging and in-orbit surveillance.