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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PlanetiQ launched the GNOMES-4 satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
York Space Systems launched the BANE commercial mission spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2023-12-01.
In a 2025 demonstration mission, Orbit Fab plans to supply the U.S. Space Force Tetra-5 spacecraft with hydrazine.
York Space Systems' BANE satellite was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2023-12-01.
The USSF-52 mission was scheduled for 2023-12-10 and would be the first time a Falcon Heavy is used to launch the U.S. military’s X-37B spaceplane.
York Space Systems won a $615,000,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency awarded in October.
Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit on Saturday, 2023-12-02 at 11:00 p.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
EIRSAT-1 successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
The United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia will host and operate the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability, a next-generation ground-based sensor funded by the U.S. Space Force and developed by Northrop Grumman.
SpaceX launched the Korea 425 mission on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on 2023-12-01 at 10:19 a.m. PT.
Intelsat will offer the multi-orbit flat panel antennas to military users under the Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) Satellite-Based Services contract run by the Defense Information Systems Agency and the U.S. Space Force.
The side boosters for the USSF-52 Falcon Heavy will be making their fifth flight after previously supporting USSF-44, USSF-67, Hughes JUPITER 3, and NASA’s Psyche missions.
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy was selected in June 2018 to launch USSF-52, making it the first Falcon Heavy on contract for a National Security Space Launch mission.
USSF-52 is targeted to lift off on 2023-12-10 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX is targeting Friday, 2023-12-01 at 10:19 a.m. PT for a Falcon 9 launch of the Korea 425 mission to low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Firefly’s Alpha rocket most recently launched on 2023-09-14 on the Victus Nox mission for the U.S. Space Force.
The Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) Satellite-Based Services contract is managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency on behalf of the Space Force’s Commercial Satellite Communications Office.
The Falcon 9 launch occurred from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 28 November 2023 at 04:20 UTC (27 November 2023 at 23:20 EST).
Work under the C-SAR contract will be performed at Schriever Space Force Base in Colorado, Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado.
Kratos will maintain and develop satellite ground systems for the U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command under the C-SAR contract.