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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The U.S. Space Force is changing its approach to procuring satellites for the Space Test Program by moving away from awarding separate contracts for individual STP missions.
The Space Force tracked 1,968 missile launches globally in 2021.
Space Micro Inc., powered by Voyager Space, was awarded an Orbital Prime contract by the U.S. Space Force as part of the first phase of the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program.
United Launch Alliance plans to achieve U.S. Space Force certification of Vulcan in advance of its first national security space mission in the fourth quarter of 2023.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Eutelsat’s Hotbird 13F satellite on 2022-10-15 at 1:22 p.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, to geostationary transfer orbit.
Derek Tournear, director of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency, displayed the names of the Tranche 0 optical communications terminal providers on 2022-10-13 at the MilSat Symposium in Mountain View, California.
Falcon 9 launched the Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13F mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit on Saturday, 2022-10-15 at 1:22 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Space Launch Delta 45 personnel are supporting preparations for the USSF-44 launch.
United Launch Alliance plans to achieve U.S. Space Force certification of Vulcan in advance of its first national security space mission scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2023.
SpaceX will not attempt recovery of the Falcon Heavy center core on USSF-44 because of the fuel consumption required by the mission profile.
SpaceX plans to recover the Falcon Heavy side boosters from USSF-44 and refurbish them for a subsequent U.S. Space Force launch later 2022.
USSF-44 is the first Falcon Heavy to launch since June 2019.
United Launch Alliance aims to achieve U.S. Space Force certification of Vulcan in advance of its first national security space mission in the fourth quarter of 2023.
United Launch Alliance aims to achieve U.S. Space Force certification of Vulcan in advance of its first national security space mission in fourth quarter 2023.
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket lifted off 2022-10-01 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the vehicle’s second flight.
The Observer Mission satellites will be deployed into a Sun Synchronous Orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on the Transporter-6 SpaceX mission.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7:05 p.m. EDT.
Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 were launched on 2022-10-08 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Firefly Aerospace performed its first successful orbital launch on 2022-10-01, just hours after the Space Force awarded a $17,600,000 contract for TacRS-3.
The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the small-satellite mission Victus Nox in 2023 to test compressed payload deployment timelines.