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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Mission 1 is scheduled to launch on 2022-11-28 at 3:46 a.m. U.S. Eastern Standard Time from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, U.S.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched Galaxy 31 and Galaxy 32 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 11:06 a.m. EST.
The previous Falcon Heavy launch supported the USSF-44 mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on 2022-11-01.
The U.S. Space Force has designated PTS-P as a 'pacesetter program' to highlight its rapid prototyping approach and quick delivery timeline.
The test of the anti-jamming technology was conducted on the U.S. Space Force’s PTS-P.
Danuri was launched on 2022-08-04 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The Protected Tactical Satcom Prototype (PTS-P) payload is planned for launch in 2024 to be tested in orbit by the U.S. Space Force.
Gen. Chance Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations, frames the OTV-6 mission as highlighting the Space Force’s focus on collaboration in space exploration and expanding low-cost access to space for partners within and outside the Department of the Air Force.
The U.S. Space Force operates the unmanned, reusable X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6) spaceplane.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the Intelsat G-31/G-32 mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on Saturday, 2022-11-12 at 11:06 a.m. ET.
ATLAS Space Operations was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research contract to develop a data analytics platform for the United States Space Force.
Metrics from pass success and equipment performance available to ATLAS’ clients will provide the United States Space Force with insight into the performance of ground site hardware, satellites, space communications, and federated networks.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 mission for NOAA and NASA and NASA’s LOFTID lifted off on 2022-11-10 at 1:49 a.m. PST from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Orbital Test Vehicle 6 was the sixth mission of the crewless reusable X-37B spaceplane built by Boeing and jointly operated by the U.S. Space Force and the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office.
The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) 2 spacecraft launched on 2022-11-10 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base and deployed into its planned polar orbit.
On 2022-11-09 the Space Force awarded Ball Aerospace a $78,200,000 contract modification exercising an option to acquire a second WSF-M satellite that would launch in 2028.
Northrop Grumman played a critical role in the integration, launch, and deployment of the USSF-44 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
The LDPE-2 spacecraft on USSF-44 consists of an ESPAStar satellite built in Northrop Grumman’s Gilbert, Arizona satellite facility.
United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 4:49 a.m. Eastern on 2022-11-10.
The USSF-44 mission is one of several Northrop Grumman payloads set to launch through the end of 2022 supporting customer missions that span human exploration, scientific discovery, communications, and national security.