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 U.S. Space Force accepted the 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.
The Space Force uses a residual NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) to collect cloud imagery and perform environmental reconnaissance over the Indian Ocean region as part of the EWS-G mission.
The Space Force budget request for 2024 includes $30,000,000 for tactically responsive space and projects another $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2025.
The U.S. Space Force Victus Nox mission was launched by Firefly Aerospace on 2023-09-14.
China's Strategic Space Force is responsible for conducting space launches and maintaining situational awareness in space.
The $25,500,000 contract awarded to Astroscale was funded by a $30,000,000 congressional earmark added to the Space Force’s 2023 budget.
A Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, 2023-09-23.
A potential client for an in-space demonstration could be one of the Tetra-5 small satellites projected to launch in 2025 for an on-orbit refueling experiment funded by the Space Force and the Defense Innovation Unit.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched 21 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit on Monday, 2023-09-25 at 1:48 a.m. PT (08:48 UTC) from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
OSIRIS-REx launched on 2016-09-08 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Colonel Joyce Bulson is project manager at Space Systems Command and leads a new office based at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station that oversees space mobility and logistics programs.
The 2023-09-25 Falcon 9 launch originated from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The US X-37B is one of two Boeing-designed spaceplanes utilized by the Space Force as a testing platform for payloads in the space environment.
OSIRIS-REx launched on 2016-09-08, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The Space Force repurposed GOES-13 in 2020 as the Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System EWS-G1.
The transfer of GOES-15 to the Space Force was announced on 2023-09-22.
The U.S. Space Force plans to release a high-accuracy catalog to the Department of Commerce machine-to-machine starting in spring 2024, updated every four hours indefinitely.
Gen. Chance Saltzman is chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force and supports the Commerce Department’s focus on establishing TraCSS.
True Anomaly was awarded a $17,400,000 contract by the U.S. Space Force to provide software tools to better understand the behavior of objects in space and identify potential threats.
Space Systems Command of the U.S. Space Force awarded a $17,400,000 Phase III Small Business Innovation Research contract to True Anomaly, Inc.