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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Operators in the Space Force need a combination of live and virtual training ranges to prepare for space warfare.
The Space Force needs to invest in updated training capabilities and infrastructure.
Space Force guardians must have access to simulators that replicate adversary threats and inter-unit interactions to solve operational challenges.
Space Force units must practice electronic warfare operations, GPS jamming maneuvers, and satellite maneuvering.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems is leveraging its GA-500 satellite bus, which is being developed for the United States Space Force under the EO/IR Weather System contract, to build the Oracle spacecraft.
The U.S. Space Force has not trained for potential conflicts where satellites could become military targets.
The U.S. Space Force must ensure its operators have the necessary training, experience, and validated tactics to effectively utilize their capabilities.
SpaceX launched OneWeb’s 40 satellites on 9 January 2023 at 11:50 p.m. ET from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX launched 40 OneWeb satellites on 2023-01-09 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida aboard a Falcon 9 at 11:50 p.m. Eastern.
EOS SAT-1 was delivered into low Earth orbit by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
COSMIC-2 is a joint program of the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, Taiwan’s National Space Organization, NOAA, and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research that launched in 2019.
OneWeb successfully deployed 40 satellites launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The Falcon 9 first stage that launched OneWeb’s 2023-01-09 mission landed at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Landing Zone 1 for reuse.
The Space Corps bill proposed by Rogers and Cooper was defeated in 2018 but was later resurrected in the 2020 NDAA when Congress established the U.S. Space Force.
Satellogic deployed four satellites launched with SpaceX at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX is aiming to launch Falcon Heavy mission USSF-67 on 2023-01-12 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
U.S. Space Systems Command plans to release details of the USSF-67 launch window 72 hours before scheduled liftoff.
Kelpie-1 lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket on 2023-01-03 at 9:56 local time (14:56 UTC) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
USSF-44 flew to geostationary Earth orbit on 2022-11-01 and was Falcon Heavy’s first national security launch.
SpaceX received a $316,000,000 contract in August 2020 to launch USSF-67.