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 $10,300,000 U.S. Space Force funding was awarded through the Defense Department’s Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies program to augment the existing commercially-owned, managed, and sustained weather constellation to support weather data-as-a-service use by the military.
Four NewSats Mark-V spacecraft built by Satellogic reached low Earth orbit following a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on 2023-06-12 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The U.S. Space Force is investing in early-stage technologies and developing a strategy to buy commercial services to refuel and service satellites in geostationary orbit by the early 2030s.
The proposed chairman’s mark would prohibit U.S. Space Command from spending money on new or improved facilities at its headquarters at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado until the Secretary of the Air Force delivers a report on the selection of a permanent location.
The proposed chairman’s mark would prohibit the U.S. Space Force from issuing a contract for procurement of the Wideband Global Satcom WGS-12 satellite that Congress directed in the 2023 spending bill.
The Space Force is funding the $50,000,000 Tetra-5 experiment co-sponsored by the Defense Innovation Unit to help inform a procurement strategy for in-orbit refueling.
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL) launched four NewSats Mark-V spacecraft to low Earth orbit aboard the SpaceX Transporter-8 mission on 2023-06-12 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Congress inserted $30,000,000 in the 2023 Space Force budget for on-orbit servicing technologies.
Aerospacelab and Exolaunch launched the Grégoire satellite on 2023-06-12 from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The Space Force’s Orbital Prime program, launched in 2021, has awarded about 125 research and study contracts to teams of industry and academia.
The Space Enterprise Consortium plans to co-fund projects using $26,000,000 from the Space Force budget and $7,800,000 in cost share from winning contractors.
Blue Canyon Technologies built the three experimental satellites delivered to LEO by STP-CR2301.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the Transporter-8 rideshare mission to low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Exolaunch integrated 32 customer satellites with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on the Transporter-8 mission launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The draft bill requires the Department of Defense to establish a process to identify and evaluate commercial space situational awareness capabilities and to develop and implement a plan to integrate that data into U.S. Space Force operational systems.
The United States Space Force and United States Space Command are directed to develop a plan to expand existing threat-sharing arrangements with commercial space operators that are under contract with the Department of Defense.
Rocket Lab’s spacecraft built for Varda Space Industries is operating on-orbit after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2023-06-12 on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 mission at 14:35 PDT (21:35 UTC).
The Falcon 9 for Transporter-8 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 5:35 p.m. Eastern.
The U.S. Space Force is collaborating with the Missile Defense Agency and the Space Development Agency under the Chief of Space Operations to develop a unified Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Enterprise solution for missile warning, missile tracking, and missile defense.
The BMC3 Application Factory’s ability to rapidly test and integrate upgraded software capabilities of on-orbit assets is intended to help the U.S. Space Force adapt to evolving threats and needs.