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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More than $500,000,000 of the increase to the Space Force budget is for the Space Development Agency.
The 2023 NDAA does not authorize a Space National Guard and would consider establishing the Space Force as a single component with full-time and part-time members as proposed by Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.
The consolidated funding bill provides $26,300,000,000 for the U.S. Space Force, Velos estimates.
The Space Development Agency was formed inside the Pentagon in 2019 and transferred to the U.S. Space Force on 2022-10-01.
BRO-8 will be deployed into sun-synchronous orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station using Exolaunch’s EXOpod Nova smallsat deployer.
The SWOT satellite is targeted to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Space Micro is under contract to supply optical terminals to the Space Force Space Systems Command.
The U.S. Space Force's Space Development Agency is spending billions of dollars on satellites equipped with optical terminals.
Sentinel-6B is currently targeted to launch in November 2025 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The first two O3b mPOWER satellites were launched into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States.
Four Kleos Space spacecraft are heading to a 525-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit aboard a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Danuri, also known as Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), launched on 2022-08-04 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Launch Complex 40.
The first two O3b mPOWER satellites were launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 16 December 2022 at 5:48 pm local time.
Spire Global, Inc. will launch six satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station no earlier than January 2023.
SpaceX launched the first O3b mPower satellites for SES’ next-generation broadband constellation on 2022-12-16 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The first two O3b mPOWER satellites launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on 2022-12-16 at 5:48 PM ET.
SpaceX launched NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission to low Earth orbit on Friday, 2022-12-16 at 3:46 a.m. PT from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 6:46 a.m. Eastern on 2022-12-16.
The four Kleos spacecraft are headed to a 525-kilometer Sun Synchronous Orbit aboard a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Spire Global will launch six satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station no earlier than January 2023.