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 Force is working with Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island to support additional launches.
TransAstra Corporation was awarded a Phase One Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the United States Space Force to explore new applications for the company's Omnivore™ thruster.
Tomorrow-R1 launched at 11:48 pm PDT on 2023-04-14 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
The U.S. Space Force delivered the second of two payloads to be hosted on Japanese satellites under an agreement signed with Japan in 2020 on 2023-05-17.
The two U.S. Space Force payloads were developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and will be hosted on Japan’s GEO-based Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS).
In 2019, the United States created the U.S. Space Force to ensure military satellite networks remain operational amid enemy threats.
The U.S. Space Force has tasked Network Innovations U.S. Government to build an integrated satellite planning and operation system.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Parsons a $55,000,000 contract to develop a ground system for a network of missile-warning satellites in medium Earth orbit.
The deliveries of both Space Force payloads to Japan follow a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the United States and Japan in December 2020.
The ground system is for a constellation of six satellites that the Space Force plans to field in medium Earth orbit in 2026 to detect and track hypersonic missiles.
When the U.S. Space Force was established in December 2019, active duty space units were moved out of the Air Force and placed in the Space Force without creating a corresponding Space National Guard component.
The Space Force plans to spend $340,000,000 on a digital infrastructure for training satellite operators and testing the performance of new hardware.
The U.S. Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office are jointly developing a proliferated LEO constellation to track moving targets from space.
The U.S. Space Force proposed a $30,000,000,000 budget in 2024.
The Space Force’s proposed 2024 budget is nearly $4,000,000,000 above the service’s 2023 appropriations.
The U.S. Space Force was established as the sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces in December 2019.
U.S. Space Force 18th Space Defense Squadron tracking data revealed a companion object in a closely matching orbit to the spaceplane on 2022-10-31 with NORAD ID 54218 (2022-093J COSPAR ID).
The fully integrated Varda spacecraft has been shipped to Vandenberg Space Force Base for launch on a commercial rideshare mission scheduled for no earlier than 2023-06-08.
With final assembly, integration, and test complete, the fully integrated Varda spacecraft has been shipped to Vandenberg Space Force Base for launch on a commercial rideshare mission scheduled no earlier than 2023-06-08.
Taifa-1 launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in April.