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 has a goal to rely on a hybrid network of commercial and military satcom systems to take advantage of emerging constellations in low, medium, and geostationary orbits.
Inmarsat Government, now part of Viasat, was awarded a Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) Satellite-Based Services (SBS) contract by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) on behalf of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC).
Gen. Chance Saltzman solicited ideas from Space Force personnel in May to develop a new mission statement.
U.S. Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman unveiled a new Space Force mission statement on 2023-09-06.
The Space Force seeks to procure an enterprise data storage and data management platform with a scalable open architecture under the IDIQ contract.
MAG Aerospace partnered with SAS to compete for U.S. Space Force data analytics contracts on 2023-09-06.
MAG Aerospace is one of 18 vendors the Space Force selected in March for a five-year, $900,000,000 indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract overseen by Space Systems Command.
The three L3Harris missions under the Firefly agreement will launch from Firefly’s SLC-2 launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Space Force tracking radars and other sensors produce data from thousands of locations.
The three L3Harris missions under the multi-launch agreement will launch from Firefly’s SLC-2 launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The three Firefly Alpha missions for L3Harris are planned to launch from Space Launch Complex SLC-2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Firefly’s Alpha rocket operates from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The three Firefly Alpha missions for L3Harris will launch from SLC-2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The ten Lockheed Martin-built smallsats launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The T0 satellites for the Space Development Agency were launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2023-09-02.
Vandenberg Space Force Base’s location on the California coastline provides customers with access to high-inclination and polar orbits frequently used by satellite communications constellations, defense intelligence and Earth-observing satellites, and some lunar missions.
The small satellites were launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
SpaceX launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Tranche 0 Flight 2 mission for the Space Development Agency after two scrubs.
There are four more Tranche 0 missile-tracking satellites made by L3Harris projected to launch on a U.S. Space Force–Missile Defense Agency mission later 2023.
The satellites were launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2023-09-02.