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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The Atlas V 501 launch carrying Project Kuiper Protoflight is planned for 2023-10-06 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit on Friday, 2023-09-29 at 10:00 p.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX targeted a Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for Friday, 2023-09-29 at 6:39 p.m. ET with three backup opportunities starting at 7:34 p.m. ET and extending until 10:15 p.m. ET.
Artel LLC was awarded a Commercial Satellite Communications Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (p-LEO) contract from the U.S. Space Force.
United Launch Alliance will launch an Atlas V 501 rocket carrying Amazon’s Project Kuiper Protoflight mission on 2023-10-06 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The U.S. Space Force accepted transfer of a second geostationary weather satellite from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to extend persistent weather coverage of the Indian Ocean region until the 2030 timeframe.
Artel LLC was awarded a Commercial Satellite Communications Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (p-LEO) contract from the U.S. Space Force.
The U.S. Space Force awarded the Starshield contract on 2023-09-01.
SpaceX received its first contract from the U.S. Space Force to provide specialized satellite communications as part of SpaceX’s Starshield program.
Engineers and technicians at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station completed the initial buildup of the Atlas V 501 rocket that will launch prototypes of the Project Kuiper broadband system as of 2023-09-28.
The Space Force uses a residual NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite to collect cloud imagery and perform environmental reconnaissance over the Indian Ocean region.
Artel LLC was awarded a Commercial Satellite Communications Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (p-LEO) contract by the U.S. Space Force.
Xage Security won a $17,000,000 contract to protect the Space Force’s Space Systems Command networks for five years.
Xage Security Gov received a $17,000,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to provide zero trust access control and data protection across SSC’s current and next-generation ground and space architectures.
The $17,000,000 contract announced 2023-09-27 covers protection of information networks, satellite ground stations, modems, and other Space Force assets.
Xage Security won a 2020 contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to study options for end-to-end data protection across military and civilian assets to support command and control for the U.S. Space Force.
Xage Security Gov received a $17,000,000 contract from U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to provide zero trust access control and data protection across SSC’s current and next-generation ground and space architectures.
Under the U.S. Space Force contract, Xage Security Gov will use the Xage Fabric to provide an identity-based zero-trust cybersecurity mesh with distributed enforcement of services at the network edge for Department of Defense systems.
After NOAA’s new GOES-18 became operational in January 2023 and congressional approval for the transfer was received in June, the Space Force accepted GOES-15 and re-designated the satellite EWS-G2.
The Space Force awarded a $10,000,000 contract to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory to evaluate the software and cybersecurity of ground systems for a new classified satellite network.