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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Three months after NOAA-21 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, an instrument onboard NOAA-21 sent back its first science data.
Congress enacted significant oversight provisions in the 2023 authorization and appropriations legislation that require the Space Force and the Department of Defense to provide more thorough justification for program funding.
Mike Tierney predicts the Biden administration’s fiscal year 2024 budget will include a substantial increase for the U.S. Space Force, potentially between $3,000,000,000 and $6,000,000,000 above the fiscal year 2023 request.
The U.S. Space Force accepted delivery of the 10th and final GPS 3 satellite built by Lockheed Martin under a 2008 contract.
The U.S. Space Force and the Department of the Air Force manage over 100 satellites that perform critical strategic missions.
The U.S. Space Force and the Department of the Air Force manage over 100 satellites that perform strategic missions.
ESCAPADE will launch on Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket from Space Launch Complex-36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Astranis expects a successful PTW on-orbit demonstration could lead Space Systems Command to order a sizable number of GEO satellites dedicated to the Space Force.
Orbit Logic was selected by Northrop Grumman to develop sensor-planning software for the U.S. Space Force’s Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) space surveillance radar.
Millennium’s Tetra-1 small satellite launched to geostationary orbit in November to test new U.S. Space Force missions.
Firefly Aerospace won a $17,600,000 contract in September to launch a Millennium Space small satellite to low Earth orbit as part of the Space Force’s Tactically Responsive Space program.
The ION orbital transfer vehicle lifted off on 2023-01-31 at 8:15 a.m. PT (16:15 UTC) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The 2023 appropriations bill directs the Space Force to procure a protected wideband satellite to provide resilient, jam resistant tactical communications to support warfighter needs.
The Pathfinder 2 hosted payload is the third Pathfinder mission designed to use existing commercial technologies to provide wideband alternatives for the U.S. Space Force’s satellite communications needs.
The U.S. Space Force will use $442,000,000 that Congress added to the 2023 defense budget to buy a wideband communications satellite made by Boeing.
SpaceX launched the Amazonas Nexus telecommunications satellite on 2023-02-06 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket.
The Space Force was negotiating a cost-sharing agreement with international users of the WGS constellation to fund the launch of WGS-11.
The Ku-band transponder Pathfinder 2 on Amazonas Nexus will provide contiguous coverage over the United States for the U.S. Space Force.
The U.S. Space Force signed an agreement with Space Norway to launch two military communications payloads on the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission projected to launch later 2023.
Defense appropriators requested that the Space Force report back on how it plans to fund the launch of the satellite purchased with the $442,000,000.