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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Vandenberg Space Force Base could support 42 launches in 2023 according to projections mentioned at the conference.
On 2023-03-24, ABL Space Systems secured a $60,000,000 strategic funding increase (STRATFI) contract involving the U.S. Space Force and the U.S. Air Force that includes matching funds from private investors.
SES-18 and SES-19 were launched by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7:38 pm local time on Friday, 2023-03-17.
Relativity Space’s first Terran 1 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 2023-03-22 at 11:25 p.m. Eastern.
Cesium for Omniverse has been used to simulate Cape Canaveral launch operations in a demo created by Cesium, Epic Games, NVIDIA, and the U.S. Space Force.
SpaceX scheduled a second set of V2 Mini satellites (Group 6-2) to launch no earlier than 2023-03-30 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX scheduled another Group 5 launch for as soon as 2023-03-24 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Orbital Assembly has been awarded a $1,700,000 contract by the United States Space Force to develop rapidly deployable on-orbit structural technologies to support electronic equipment.
The U.S. Space Force awarded a $1,600,000 contract to a team led by Southern California startup Arkisys to demonstrate robotic satellite assembly.
The Space Force budget proposal includes $30,000,000 for tactically responsive space in fiscal year 2025.
The Space Force flew the Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) mission in 2021 on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
Geost won two U.S. Space Force contracts in 2021 worth $38,000,000 to develop an optical sensor payload for satellites in geostationary orbit.
The U.S. Space Force is seeking $60,000,000 over fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for a program called tactically responsive space.
The Space Force budget proposal includes $30,000,000 for tactically responsive space in fiscal year 2024.
OneWeb receives an average of 53,000 conjunction data messages per day from the U.S. Space Force about potential close approaches.
Astroscale U.S., in partnership with CisLunar Industries, won a Small Business Innovative Research award from the U.S. Space Force to test technologies for repurposing debris into materials like propellant.
SpaceX performed two launches a little more than four hours apart on 2023-03-17, launching Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base and two SES communications satellites on another Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the SES-18 and SES-19 satellites to geostationary transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Friday, 2023-03-17 at 7:38 p.m. ET.
SpaceX launched SES-18 and SES-19 on 2023-03-17 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
On 2023-03-10 OneWeb launched 40 satellites into orbit with SpaceX from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.