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 reallocated the funding for the two removed GPS 3F satellites to its missile-warning constellations, which receive a large increase in the 2024 budget.
The fiscal year 2024 Department of Defense budget request includes $30,000,000,000 for the U.S. Space Force.
RS21 won U.S. Space Force Small Business Innovation Research contracts in 2021 and 2022 to develop, test, and deploy SPAICE in ground software for the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program-7 mission scheduled to launch later 2023.
Space Launch Delta 45, which operates the Eastern Range, assigned three sites at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to four startups on 2023-03-07.
Momentus completed production of Vigoride-6 and shipped it on 2023-03-08 to Vandenberg Space Force Base for integration on the SpaceX Transporter-7 dedicated rideshare mission scheduled for launch in April.
Environmental testing is one of the final steps before Jupiter 3 is shipped to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
The Falcon 9 reusable first stage returned to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station after the 2023-03-09 launch.
SpaceX launched the OneWeb 17 mission to low Earth orbit on 2023-03-09 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The PTES demonstration validated the design for the U.S. Space Force’s ground-based anti-jamming satellite communications (SATCOM) capability.
SpaceX deployed 40 OneWeb satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during the OneWeb 17 launch.
The Vigoride-6 Orbital Service Vehicle arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base for its third demonstration mission targeted to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-7 mission next month.
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 2:13 p.m. Eastern from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
Space Launch Delta 45 provides safety and mission assurance for all rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Astroscale is part of a team awarded a $1,700,000 contract by the U.S. Space Force under the Orbital Prime program.
The U.S. Space Force plans to augment geostationary systems with distributed networks of satellites in different orbits to increase resilience and complicate adversary targeting.
Under a separate Space Force contract, Boeing is developing a jam-resistant satellite communications payload called the Protected Tactical Satcom Prototype (PTS-P) expected to launch in 2024 for an on-orbit demonstration.
Space Launch Delta 45 allocated Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to Stoke Space.
The U.S. Space Force is contributing $24,000,000 to help develop Neutron’s upper stage.
Launching Neutron from Wallops will allow the vehicle to compete for NSSL missions to sun-synchronous orbits and mid-inclination orbits typically launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The U.S. Space Force plans to open the next round of launch procurements to a broad range of commercial players.