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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NASA estimated on 2023-01-06 that ERBS would reenter on 2023-01-08 with an initial predicted time of 6:40 p.m. Eastern plus or minus 17 hours based on U.S. Space Force data.
EOS SAT-1 was delivered into low Earth orbit by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 2023-01-03.
The ISILAUNCH38 launch took place on 3 January 2023 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 9:56 a.m. ET (14:56 UTC).
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 an optimized Oracle spacecraft.
Space Systems Command launched the Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) Weather Systems (EWS) cubesat technical demonstration onboard the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on 2023-01-03 at 9:56 a.m. Eastern (6:56 a.m. Pacific).
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on 2023-01-03 at 9:56 a.m. ET (14:56 UTC) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
Lockheed Martin is providing its mid-sized LM 400 bus to host a Raytheon infrared sensor payload for the U.S. Space Force’s first missile tracking capability at medium Earth orbit.
Spire Global launched six satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Satellogic deployed four satellites launched with SpaceX from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as rideshare members of the Transporter-6 mission.
Following stage separation on the Transporter-6 mission, the Falcon 9 first stage accomplished a soft landing at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The 36 SuperDove satellites were launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
Stanford SSI will launch the Sapling Sempervirens (Sapling-1) satellite on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
A Falcon 9 launched SpaceX’s Transporter-6 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
All but one of SpaceX’s 61 launches in 2022 used the Falcon 9 vehicle, with the exception being a Falcon Heavy launch for the U.S. Space Force.
SpaceX’s Transporter-6 mission is scheduled to launch 2023-01-03 at 9:56 a.m. Eastern on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
AST SpaceMobile will upload predicted trajectory information on an ongoing basis for its BlueWalker 3 test satellite and planned BlueBird satellites to Space-Track.org with the U.S. Space Force.
A Falcon 9 lifted off at 2:38 a.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
SpaceX launched 54 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit on 2022-12-28 at 4:34 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX launched the ImageSat International EROS C-3 (Earth Resources Observation Systems C) mission to low Earth orbit on 2022-12-29 at 11:38 p.m. PT from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Velos estimates that the $26,300,000,000 for the U.S. Space Force is nearly $1,700,000,000 more than the Pentagon requested.