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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SpaceX launched the ARABSAT BADR-8 mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit on Saturday, 2023-05-27 at 12:30 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The ARABSAT BADR-8 mission departed to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX was targeting Friday, 2023-05-26 for the Falcon 9 launch of the ARABSAT BADR-8 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX launched the Badr-8 TV broadcast and telecoms satellite on 2023-05-27 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
DARPA, the U.S. Space Force, and the Space Development Agency are developing satellite constellations to improve the tactical relevance of U.S. space systems.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $45,500,000 contract to launch a small weather satellite in 2025.
The launch of EWS Operational Demonstration-1 on mission USSF-261S-A is planned for May 2025.
Orbit Fab will seek to refuel the U.S. Space Force Tetra-5 spacecraft with up to 50 kg of hydrazine.
The Space Force awarded Orion Space Solutions a $50,000,000 contract for the Tetra-5 experiment last year.
The OSP-4 Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract will provide orbital launch services for the Space Systems Command Space Sensing Directorate’s Electro-Optical Infrared (EO/IR) Weather System prototype known as EWS Operational Demonstration-1 for a U.S. Space Force mission designated USSF-261S-A.
The Space Force Next-Gen OPIR program includes five satellites: two polar satellites from Northrop Grumman and three geosynchronous satellites being produced by Lockheed Martin under a $4,900,000,000 contract awarded in 2021.
The Space Force established the Spaceport Integration Office in July to help improve coordination of spaceport activities.
NGA seeks to increase Space Command and Space Force representation working at the agency to build expertise in space domain awareness.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is collaborating with NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Space Force, and U.S. Space Command to develop a lunar geodetic system.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched five Iridium spare satellites and 16 OneWeb satellites from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on 2023-05-20 at 6:16 a.m. PT.
The satellites lifted off at 06:16 am PDT (13:16 UTC) from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying a total of 21 spacecraft lifted off at 9:16 a.m. Eastern from Vandenberg Space Force Base on a polar trajectory to the south amid heavy fog.
Two U.S. Space Force payloads developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory will be hosted on Japan’s GEO-based Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS).
U.S. Space Command is currently based at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado.
The deliveries of both Space Force payloads to Japan follow a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the United States and Japan in December 2020.