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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Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, completed a Critical Design Review for the U.S. Space Force's Missile Track Custody program mission payload.
The Space Force has launched five of the 10 GPS 3 model satellites it purchased.
Rocket Lab’s 32 Electron missions from Launch Complex 1 delivered 152 satellites to orbit for customers including NASA, the National Reconnaissance Office, DARPA, the U.S. Space Force, and commercial constellation operators.
The Space Force exercised the fourth contract option awarded to Lockheed Martin under a 2018 agreement worth $7,200,000,000 for up to 22 satellites.
The U.S. Space Force ordered three GPS 3F satellites from Lockheed Martin on 2022-11-28 for $744,000,000.
Both EPS-R payloads are scheduled to launch to highly elliptical orbits in 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Millennium Space Systems and Raytheon were selected in May 2021 to design separate medium Earth orbit satellite concepts for the Space Force.
The U.S. Space Force plans to seek industry bids next year for as many as four medium Earth orbit satellites for a projected multi-orbit overhead persistent infrared sensor architecture.
The U.S. Space Force plans to deploy a constellation of 135 missile-warning and missile-tracking satellites in low Earth orbit and 16 in medium Earth orbit.
Falcon 9 launched the Eutelsat 10B mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Tuesday, 2022-11-22 at 9:57 p.m. ET.
The U.S. Space Force officially activated and assigned U.S. Space Forces – IndoPacific (USSPACEFOR-INDOPAC) to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command on 2022-11-22 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Hawaii.
Phantom plans to perform launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the west coast and from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the east coast.
Mission 1 (M1) is scheduled to liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station no earlier than 2022-11-30.
SpaceX launched the Eutelsat 10B satellite on 2022-11-22 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The U.S. Space Force formally established U.S. Space Forces Indo-Pacific on 2023-11-22.
NOAA’s JPSS-2 satellite was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
NASA launched the third in a series of polar-orbiting weather satellites for NOAA at 1:49 a.m. PST on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Under its contract with the Space Force’s Mission Manifest Office, Parsons integrated payloads for several missions including NASA and U.S. Geological Survey’s Landsat 9, which carried four cubesats from other U.S. government agencies.
Rocket Lab has delivered 152 satellites to orbit for customers that have included NASA, the National Reconnaissance Office, DARPA, the U.S. Space Force, and commercial constellation operators.
HAKUTO-R M1 is slated to fly on a Falcon 9 at 3:46 a.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, subject to weather and other conditions.