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 Space Force conducted the Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) mission in June 2021 using Northrop Grumman’s air-launched Pegasus XL rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, with Northrop Grumman given 21 days’ notice to prepare for launch.
SpaceX launched the Intelsat G-33/G-34 mission on 2022-10-08 at 7:05 p.m. ET to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Alpha Flight 2 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Vandenberg Space Force Base hosted the final Delta IV Heavy launch of the National Reconnaissance Office mission NROL-91.
The Observer Mission satellites will be deployed into sun-synchronous orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission currently scheduled for 2022-10-01.
SES launched the SES-20 and SES-21 satellites on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Firefly Aerospace completed its first successful orbital flight with Alpha Flight 2, which launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2022-10-01.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command selected General Atomics to host the Argos Advanced Data Collection System payload through its Hosted Payload Services contract vehicle on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at a cost of $64,000,000.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch the T1DES space vehicles with the Tranche 1 Tracking space vehicles on four launches procured through the U.S. Space Force’s National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract.
Alpha FLTA002 lifted off on 2022-10-01 at 12:01 am PST from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
United Launch Alliance launched the SES-20 and SES-21 satellites for SES on 2022-10-04 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket launched SES-20 and SES-21 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 5:36 p.m. local time on Tuesday, 2022-10-04.
NOAA is preparing to launch the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 on 2022-11-01 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Firefly currently launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and plans to also launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The Space Force plans to select launch providers in 2024 for the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 contracts.
Spaceflight Inc.’s Sherpa-LTC2 tug launched 2022-09-04 as a rideshare payload on a Falcon 9 that also carried 51 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Firefly a $17,600,000 contract for the 2023 Tactically Responsive Space TacRS-3 mission.
Another Falcon 9 was scheduled to launch a set of Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 7:10 p.m. Eastern on 2022-10-05.
A third Falcon 9 was scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7:07 p.m. Eastern on 2022-10-06 carrying the Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 communications satellites for Intelsat.
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched SES-20 and SES-21 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on 2022-10-04 at 5:36 local time.