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 Atlas 5 lifted off at 7:15 p.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launched the USSF-12 mission on 2022-07-01.
Relativity will launch OneWeb missions from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The Space Force launch procurement command in Los Angeles will send to the Pentagon later 2022 a proposed strategy for selecting national security launch services providers for the next round of contracts expected to be awarded in 2024.
The House Armed Services Committee’s version of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act directs the Space Force to explore new and innovative acquisition approaches to leverage launch competition within the commercial market.
SES-22 was launched on 2022-06-29 at 5:04 pm local time from SpaceX’s Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX launched the SES-22 satellite on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States.
The U.S. Space Force will deploy seven satellites on the STP-S28A mission that are provided by multiple government agencies to conduct experiments in space-based communications, in-space navigation, and climate change.
The U.S. Space Force procured the STP-S28A launch through the Rocket Systems Launch Program with payloads provided by the Department of Defense Space Test Program.
SES is preparing the SES-22 satellite for launch from SpaceX’s Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on 2022-06-29 at 5:04 p.m. local time (23:04 UTC).
The U.S. Space Force established Space Delta 18 on 2022-06-24.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced on 2022-04-18 at Vandenberg Space Force Base that the United States would ban testing of destructive, direct-ascent antisatellite (ASAT) weapons.
SES-22 is being prepared for launch from SpaceX’s Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on 2022-06-29 at 5:04 pm / 23:04 pm.
The U.S. Space Force selected General Atomics and Orion Space Solutions to each develop and launch demonstration satellites to gather global weather imagery and data on cloud characteristics.
The House Appropriations Committee directed the Space Force in a report accompanying the fiscal year 2023 defense appropriations bill to conduct rigorous technical analysis matched with executable plans resourced by realistic budgets.
The Space Force stated that ESS satellites will provide polar coverage that AEHF does not provide.
The Space Force plans to spend $5,500,000,000 over five years on the Evolved Strategic Satcom (ESS) program.
The U.S. Navy originally acquired four MUOS satellites plus an on-orbit spare launched in 2016, and the MUOS program has since transferred to the Space Force.
The Space Force is budgeting $2,200,000,000 for narrowband satellites to procure two additional Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellites.
The U.S. Space Force’s Commercial Satellite Communications Office (CSCO) plans to award nearly $2,300,000,000 in commercial satcom contracts over the next two years.