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 Space Development Agency is a procurement organization under the Space Force that is executing a multibillion-dollar plan to field a mesh network of low Earth orbit satellites for missile warning and data transport.
A $400,000 contract option awarded on 2023-07-11 directs Muon Space to deliver space weather data to the U.S. Space Force.
The contract option directs Muon Space to monitor the ionosphere for the U.S. Space Force through September 2024.
Muon Space will supply the U.S. Air Force with global soil moisture and sea surface wind measurements and will supply ionospheric data to the U.S. Space Force.
The Space Force's National Security Space Launch Program includes a two-lane approach for launch contracts awarded in 2025.
Lt. Gen. John Shaw spent time with GSSAP operators at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado.
The U.S. Space Force has been asked for a demonstration by 2026 on how to perform sustained space maneuvers for a given platform.
SpaceX launched the ESA Euclid mission on 2023-07-01 at 11:12 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Euclid lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 17:12 CEST on 1 July 2023.
Under the Space Force contract, iRocket will perform a full-duration static fire test of its reusable engine for 120 to 180 seconds.
Firefly Aerospace has launched its Alpha rocket twice from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Liftoff of Euclid is scheduled for 11:11 a.m. Eastern on 2023-07-01 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Above: Orbital received a $1,700,000 SpaceWERX U.S. Space Force award in March to develop rapidly deployable structures for space-based solar panels, communications antenna arrays, and other large structures.
Classified Space Force programs were reduced from $7,000,000,000 to $6,400,000,000 in the committee’s bill.
The House Appropriations Committee bill recommends nearly $1,000,000,000 in cuts from the U.S. Space Force’s $30,000,000,000 request.
The U.S. Space Force plans to provide a total of approximately $110,000,000 to the JCO for fiscal years 2023 through 2027.
The U.S. Space Force plans to provide approximately $20,000,000 to the JCO for commercial SSA data purchases in fiscal year 2023.
The Space Force will award five-year contracts in NSSL Phase 3 Lane 2 to two launch providers capable of flying a full range of missions to the most demanding orbits.
The SASC bill directs the establishment of transparent regulations for entering into agreements and receiving cost reimbursements for provision of goods and services to commercial companies conducting space launch activities at Space Force bases.
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the NROL-68 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office lifted off on 2023-06-22 from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.