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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Space Launch Delta 45 at Patrick Space Force Base oversees the nation’s busiest spaceport on the Florida coast.
The two contracts are for the Ground Based Optical Sensor System (GBOSS) and Space Fence Sustainment (Option Year 4) and support the U.S. Space Force’s MOSSAIC program.
The Space Force shares port access at Patrick Space Force Base with the busiest cruise port in the world, creating constraints for receiving items by water.
The Space Force has identified $1,300,000,000 in projected funding for spaceport improvements.
The Space Force is interested in procuring maneuverable small satellites that can deliver connectivity from geosynchronous Earth orbit.
The United States Space Force Space Systems Command Commercial Satellite Communications Office is seeking sources capable of supporting a Department of Defense effort to launch and maintain communications satellites with greater maneuverability and smaller size than traditional geostationary satellites.
The Space Force’s request for information states it is seeking sources capable of launching and maintaining communications satellites that allow for greater maneuverability and smaller size than traditional geostationary satellites.
The pLEO IDIQ contract structure is part of the U.S. Space Force’s new approach to acquiring SATCOM.
The U.S. Space Force did not track the two cubesats that failed to deploy on the 2023-10-08 Vega flight.
The BMC3 Application Factory can rapidly test and integrate upgraded software capabilities of on-orbit assets to help the U.S. Space Force adapt to evolving threats and needs.
True Anomaly received a $17,000,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase 3 award from the U.S. Space Force to provide Space Domain Awareness solutions.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Danti a $1,200,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 contract on 2023-10-18 to further develop its AI-enabled geospatial search technology.
True Anomaly received a $17,000,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 3 award from the U.S. Space Force to provide Space Domain Awareness solutions.
Firefly Aerospace launched the Victus Nox responsive launch mission for the U.S. Space Force on 2023-09-14 on an Alpha rocket.
The Space Force’s commercial satellite communications portfolio comprises 70 different contracts valued at $3,600,000,000.
The Rapid Resilient Command and Control program (R2C2) is a new initiative led by the Space Force’s Space Rapid Capabilities Office to develop a modern software-based ground control system for military satellites.
Scientific Systems won a $1,500,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop software for in-space object detection and identification.
U.S. Space Force Colonel Richard Kniseley, head of Space Systems Command’s Commercial Space Office (COMSO), will deliver the keynote address at the SpaceNews 2023 Icon Awards on 2023-12-05 in Washington, D.C.
NASA engineers reviewed data from a Falcon 9 Starlink launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base that took place early 2023-10-09 in their evaluations related to the Psyche launch.
The mission launched from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.