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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NTS-3 is scheduled to launch as a 1,250-kilogram secondary payload on USSF-106, a national security space mission assigned to United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket.
The Department of the Air Force expects that building smaller systems, acquiring smaller ground and software increments, using existing technologies, and shortening contract timelines will enable the Space Force to provide mission capabilities faster to warfighters.
High-resolution thermal infrared will provide a new commercial remote sensing solution for the U.S. Space Force.
The LM 400 is under several contracts and was named as the satellite bus supporting the U.S. Space Force’s planned Missile Track Custody program in Medium Earth Orbit.
SpaceX will lease Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6) at Vandenberg Space Force Base to launch Falcon rockets.
The U.S. Space Force’s Commercial SATCOM Communication Office (CSCO) awarded a five-year Commercial Satellite Communications (COMSATCOM) Transponded Capacity (CTC) contract worth USD 27.54 million through the Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO).
CisLunar Industries intends to use recycled-metal propellant for the Neumann Drive to support debris retrieval operations and the Space Force SAML (Space Access, Mobility, and Logistics) mission.
Astra Space was awarded a launch task order for Rocket 4 through the United States Space Force’s Orbital Services Program (OSP)-4 contract for the STP-S29B mission.
The U.S. Space Force’s Commercial SATCOM Communication Office awarded SES Space & Defense a five-year Commercial Satellite Communications (COMSATCOM) Transponded Capacity (CTC) contract worth USD 27.54 million.
Astroscale U.S., CisLunar Industries, and Colorado State University received a $1,700,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop a circular propulsion ecosystem based on recycling metal in space to enable enhanced satellite mobility.
The Space Force requested funding to buy commercial space situational awareness data for the first time in its budget requests for fiscal years 2022 and 2023.
A five-year Commercial Satellite Communications (COMSATCOM) Transponded Capacity (CTC) contract worth $27,540,000 was awarded to SES Space & Defense by the U.S. Space Force’s Commercial SATCOM Communication Office (CSCO) through the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO).
Maxar will launch the first pair of WorldView Legion satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
Space Systems Command is the U.S. Space Force field command responsible for acquiring and delivering resilient warfighting capabilities.
The $11,500,000 task order to Astra was awarded under the U.S. Space Force’s Orbital Services Program OSP-4 as recorded by Space Systems Command on 2023-04-21.
The U.S. Space Force allocated $59,000,000 in its 2024 budget to buy satellite communications services from SES’ O3b mPower constellation in medium Earth orbit.
The U.S. Space Force is interested in partnering with allies that are investing in sovereign national satcom systems, including Australia and the United Kingdom.
The U.S. Space Force plans to start replacing decades-old parabolic satellite dishes with electronic phased array antennas developed by BlueHalo in 2025.
Satellogic Inc. deployed four additional satellites to orbit following SpaceX’s Transporter-7 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
The Norwegian Space Agency’s NorSat-TD satellite was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.