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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SILENTBARKER/NROL-107 is a joint National Reconnaissance Office and U.S. Space Force mission to improve space domain awareness.
Liftoff for the SILENTBARKER/NROL-107 mission is planned to occur from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
TEMPO launched on 2023-04-07 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as part of NASA's Earth Venture Instrument program.
The U.S. Space Force plans to launch a responsive space mission called Victus Nox 2023 featuring a small satellite built by Millennium Space that will launch on a Firefly Aerospace rocket.
The U.S. Space Force plans to spend $60,000,000 over the next two years on tactically responsive space demonstrations.
A Falcon 9 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2023-06-12 carrying the Transporter-8 payloads.
Since its inception, Free Space secured more than $1,500,000 in U.S. Space Force contracts to develop its space domain awareness and security technology.
PAR Government Systems Corporation and ICEYE signed a prime contract award for the Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) Satellite-Based Services initiative led by the U.S. Space Force.
OneWeb Technologies was awarded a 10-year Commercial Satellite Communications Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (p-LEO) contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command, Commercial Space Office, and Commercial Satellite Communications Office with a $900,000,000 ceiling.
In 2021, the Air Force and Space Force planned to work with the U.S. intelligence community to pursue a space-based target tracking capability intended to replace JSTARS.
SpaceX launched 21 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 2023-08-22.
On 2023-08-22, the European Space Agency received information that 12 days earlier the U.S. Space Force’s 18th Space Defense Squadron had identified several pieces of debris in the vicinity of the Vespa payload adapter.
SpaceX rescheduled the liftoff of its next Falcon 9 Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to Wednesday, 2023-08-23.
Capella will provide more timely, high-resolution SAR data to support U.S. Space Force missions through its rapidly growing constellation.
The PLEO contract award enables Capella to partner with U.S. Space Systems Command and the U.S. Space Force to broaden access to global 24/7, all-weather imagery for key missions.
Muon Space’s first satellite, MuSat-1, launched in June via Exolaunch on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The PLEO award enables Capella to partner more quickly with Space Systems Command and the U.S. Space Force to broaden access to global 24/7, all-weather imagery for key missions.
Capella will provide more timely, high-resolution SAR data to support U.S. Space Force missions through its rapidly growing constellation.
The first two Jackal autonomous orbital vehicles are slated to launch in February 2024 aboard a SpaceX Transporter-10 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The first two Jackal AOVs are slated to launch in February 2024 on a SpaceX Transporter-10 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base.