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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Four additional Tranche 0 missile-tracking satellites made by L3Harris are projected to launch later 2023 on a U.S. Space Force–Missile Defense Agency mission flown on a Falcon 9 under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off 2023-09-02 at 7:25 a.m. Pacific from Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
The Space Development Agency is a U.S. Space Force organization building a space data network called the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture that includes a transport layer and a missile-tracking sensor layer.
Northrop Grumman is building the Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System prototype for the U.S. Space Force.
Firefly Aerospace and Millennium Space Systems completed multiple rehearsals that included packing and delivering a satellite mockup to Firefly's integration facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base to practice all launch operations within a prescribed 24-hour period.
SpaceX is targeting Friday, 2023-09-01 at 7:26 a.m. PT (14:26 UTC) for a Falcon 9 launch of the Space Development Agency’s second Tranche 0 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Science Applications International Corp. won a $574,500,000 task order to help the U.S. Space Force update and sustain a global network of ground-based radar systems.
SpaceX was targeting Thursday, 2023-08-31 at 7:26 a.m. PT (14:26 UTC) for the Falcon 9 launch of the Space Development Agency’s second Tranche 0 mission from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, 2023-08-31 at 10:21 p.m. ET (02:21 UTC on 2023-09-01) for a Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Firefly and Millennium completed multiple rehearsals for VICTUS NOX that included packing and delivering a satellite mockup to Firefly’s integration facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base to practice launch operations within a 24-hour timeframe.
Firefly Aerospace and Millennium Space Systems completed multiple rehearsals that included packing and delivering a satellite mockup to Firefly’s integration facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base to practice launch operations within the prescribed 24-hour window.
The Falcon 9 second Tranche 0 mission for the Space Development Agency will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The United States Space Force partnered with the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Universities Space Research Association for the University Consortium Research Opportunity 2.0/Space Strategic Technology Institute 1 selections.
The Space Development Agency is an organization under the U.S. Space Force building the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a mesh network in low Earth orbit that includes a data transport layer and a missile-tracking sensor layer.
The U.S. Space Force operates a network of early warning radar sensors used to detect missile threats and track objects in outer space.
The United States Space Force selected two institutions under the University Consortium Research Opportunity 2.0/Space Strategic Technology Institute 1 to facilitate applied research in Beyond Geostationary Earth Orbit Operations and Space Domain Awareness.
The Leoness satellite bus was selected for the U.S. Space Force’s Tetra 5 in-orbit refueling experiment planned for 2025.
Since its inception, Free Space secured over $1,500,000 of U.S. Space Force contracts to develop its space domain awareness and autonomy technology.
The SILENTBARKER/NROL-107 mission is scheduled to launch 2023-08-29 at 8:34 a.m. EDT (5:34 a.m. PDT) from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The SILENTBARKER/NROL-107 mission is planned to lift off on Tuesday, 2023-08-29 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.