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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Ball Aerospace, Parsons, General Dynamics, and Omni Federal each won $9,700,000 contracts from the U.S. Space Force to develop competing designs of next-generation ground systems.
USSF-25 will launch the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO).
South Korea will launch its domestically developed reconnaissance satellite on 2023-11-30 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office partnered with the United States Space Force to schedule X-37B Mission 7 for launch on 2023-12-07.
X-37B Mission 7 aims to expand the United States Space Force’s knowledge of the space environment through experimentation.
USSF-57 will launch the first of three Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geostationary (NGG) satellites.
X-37B Mission 7, also designated OTV-7, will launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time under the mission designation USSF-52.
Each Northrop Grumman-built ASBM satellite carries a Ka-Band payload for Viasat, an X-Band payload for the Norwegian Ministry of Defense, and Enhanced Polar System Recapitalization payloads for the U.S. Space Force.
ASBM is a two-satellite constellation designed to deliver broadband communications to the Northern polar region for the U.S. Space Force and Space Norway.
Each Northrop Grumman-built ASBM satellite carries a Ka-band payload for Viasat, an X-band payload for the Norwegian Ministry of Defense, and Enhanced Polar System Recapitalization payloads for the U.S. Space Force.
SpaceX was awarded a $130,000,000 contract in June 2018 to launch USSF-52.
The Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) is a two-satellite constellation designed to deliver broadband communications to the Northern polar region for the U.S. Space Force and Space Norway.
USSF-52 will conduct tests including operating the reusable X-37B in new orbital regimes, experimenting with space domain awareness technologies, and investigating radiation effects on materials provided by NASA.
The X-37B spaceplane is built by Boeing and operated by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office and the U.S. Space Force.
USSF-52 was originally scheduled to launch in 2021 and has been delayed by payload and range availability.
The Space Force aims to enable teamwork between contracting officers and program managers and award executable contracts.
The Vulcan Cert-1 mission is planned to launch on 2023-12-24 from Space Launch Complex-41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The Space Force aims to deliver ground systems before launch and hold industry accountable for results.
The Space Force seeks to maintain program stability and avoid special access programs and over-classification.
Calvelli has steered the U.S. Space Force toward an acquisition philosophy centered on speed and ensuring contractors fulfill obligations and meet milestones.