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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Firefly Aerospace scheduled the second launch of its Alpha rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base for 2022-09-11.
Danuri launched on 2022-08-04 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
AFRL anticipates that MISSE-16 will deliver several important benefits to the U.S. Space Force, the space industry, and the broader space enterprise.
Turion Space secured four contracts worth a combined $1,000,000 from the U.S. Space Force’s Orbital Prime program to support development of the company’s on-orbit logistics capabilities.
Melody Lovin is the weather officer at the Space Force’s Space Launch Delta 45 and assessed that it was too early to forecast weather for the 2022-09-02 Artemis 1 backup opportunity.
Turion Space secured four contracts earlier 2022 worth a combined $1,000,000 from the U.S. Space Force’s Orbital Prime program to support development of its in-orbit logistics capabilities.
U.S. Space Force awarded Orion Space Solutions a contract to develop three spacecraft.
Maj. Gen. Douglas Schiess assumed command of U.S. Space Command’s Combined Force Space Component Command at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on 2022-08-22.
Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt will take a senior post at Space Force headquarters at the Pentagon.
Copernicus launched at 6:28 a.m. EDT on 1972-08-21 from Launch Complex 36B at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
Perry VanZandt is a graduate of the Space Force’s Supra Coder program and developed a software tool now used at Space Flag to help operators understand orbital uncertainty.
The Space Development Agency expects to be ramping up launches around 2024 while the U.S. Space Force will be in the process of selecting launch providers for the next NSSL contract.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Orion Space Solutions a contract to develop three spacecraft.
The Tetra-5 mission is intended to help the U.S. Space Force evaluate commercial technologies to inspect and service geostationary satellites 22,0 m above Earth.
The U.S. Space Force awarded a $44,500,000 contract for the Tetra-5 mission.
Orion Space Solutions was selected by the U.S. Space Force on 2022-08-16 to develop three small satellites for a demonstration of on-orbit services in geostationary Earth orbit.
The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command plans to develop payloads rather than build complete satellites, with those payloads to be integrated by the Space Force or other organizations onto military or commercial satellite buses.
U.S. Army-operated satellite ground stations will be handed over to the U.S. Space Force on 2022-08-15.
The U.S. Army shifted about $78,000,000 to the Space Force’s 2022 budget to cover the cost of operating five satellite operations centers and four regional support centers.
Space Launch Delta 45 is the U.S. Space Force unit that operates the Eastern Range and worked with NASA on the FTS certification extension.