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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HawkEye 360 will provide data to support Slingshot Aerospace’s proliferated Low Earth Orbit (pLEO) Data Exploitation and Enhanced Processing (DEEP) program for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command.
HawkEye 360 will provide data collected by its radio-frequency mapping satellites to Slingshot Aerospace for a threat-detection system Slingshot is developing for the U.S. Space Force.
SpaceX launched the U.S. Space Force and Lockheed Martin-built GPS III Space Vehicle 06 (GPS III SV06) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on 2023-01-18.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on 2023-01-18 at 7:24 a.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, carrying a U.S. Space Force GPS satellite.
Vulcan’s initial planned National Security Space Launch missions include USSF-106, USSF-87, and GPS SV-07.
The GPS constellation operated by the U.S. Space Force comprises 31 satellites.
Japan’s Office of National Space Policy signed an agreement in 2020 with the U.S. Space Force to host two optical sensor payloads on the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) constellation.
The U.S. Space Force delivered the first of two space sensor payloads on 2023-01-17.
Northrop Grumman built LDPE-2, which launched aboard the USSF-44 mission in November 2022.
The side boosters used on USSF-67 were the same boosters used for USSF-44, which launched from the Eastern Range on 2022-11-01.
Space Systems Command is the U.S. Space Force field command responsible for acquiring and delivering resilient warfighting capabilities and manages an $11,000,000,000 space acquisition budget for the Department of Defense.
SpaceX launched the U.S. Space Force’s USSF-67 mission from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A on 2023-01-15 aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket.
The Northrop Grumman-built LDPE-2 launched aboard the USSF-44 mission in November 2022.
The R/S RocketShip is on a 2,000-mile voyage to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifted off on 2023-01-15 at 5:56 p.m. Eastern from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, carrying the U.S. Space Force USSF-67 mission to geostationary Earth orbit.
The 2023-01-15 Falcon Heavy mission was Falcon Heavy’s second national security space launch following the 2022-11-01 USSF-44 launch.
The secondary spacecraft on USSF-67 was the Long Duration Propulsive ESPA bus LDPE-3A, built by Northrop Grumman, carrying five small military payloads.
SpaceX received a $316,000,000 contract in August 2020 to launch USSF-67.
Most of the training infrastructure used by the Space Force was inherited from the Air Force.
The Space Force requires operational concepts that specify techniques and procedures for effectively utilizing space capabilities.