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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SBIRS GEO-6 joins the U.S. Space Force’s constellation of missile warning satellites equipped with scanning and staring infrared surveillance sensors.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit-6 (SBIRS GEO 6) mission lifted off on 2022-08-04 at 6:29 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SBIRS GEO-6 began responding to U.S. Space Force commands as planned.
The Air Force and Space Force have advocated shifting surveillance traditionally performed by aircraft to the space domain to support missions in denied areas.
SBIRS GEO-6 was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
RocketStar plans to return to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida in March 2023 for a flight test of a larger rocket.
The Department of the Air Force recommended in January 2021 that Space Command move from Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado, to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Space Force provided NovaWurks three different spacecraft payloads with different thermal and field-of-view requirements to demonstrate quick-turnaround.
Landsat 9 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 2022-09-27 of last year.
SpaceX launched the first set of Group 3 Starlink satellites on 2022-07-10 from Vandenberg Space Force Base into polar orbit.
AASC’s metal plasma thrusters have been integrated in a weather satellite that Orion Space is scheduled to launch later 2022 under a U.S. Space Force contract.
HANCOM-1, a Spire 6U smallsat carrying an optical payload for HANCOM inSPACE, launched in May 2022 on the SpaceX Transporter-5 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Launch Complex 40 at 7:08 p.m. Eastern on 2022-08-04.
HANCOM-1 launched in May 2022 on the SpaceX Transporter-5 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7:08 p.m. EDT (2308 GMT).
United Launch Alliance collaborated with the U.S. Space Force to form a human "75" next to the SBIRS GEO-6 launch vehicle in honor of the U.S. Air Force’s 75th anniversary.
Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station also provides access to geostationary orbits and departures to the Moon and interplanetary destinations.
Two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets launched national security National Reconnaissance Office satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base earlier 2022.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying a U.S. Space Force missile-warning satellite lifted off on 2022-08-04 at 6:29 a.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) to a ballistic lunar transfer orbit on 2022-08-04 at 7:08 p.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.