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 awarded United Launch Alliance and SpaceX five-year National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contracts in 2020 to launch collectively as many as 35 NSSL missions.
The Observer Mission satellites will be deployed into a sun-synchronous orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The bill requires a contract with one or more federally funded research and development centers to conduct a study on the proposed reorganization of the U.S. Space Force and the establishment of a space reserve component.
Space Systems Command delivered the sixth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite (SBIRS GEO-6) to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on 2022-06-02.
Space Force operators at the 2nd Space Warning Squadron, Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado, detected the January 2020 launches and provided early warning for personnel at Ayn al Asad Airbase, Iraq.
The Airbus-built SARah-1 Earth observation satellite was transported from Friedrichshafen, Germany to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Loadmasters from the 60th Air Mobility Wing and Lockheed Martin Space unloaded SBIRS GEO-6 from a C-5M Super Galaxy at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on 2022-06-02.
The Observer Mission satellites will be deployed into a Sun-synchronous orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
BlueHalo developed optical communications technology used by NASA in the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration that flew to orbit in December as part of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Test Program 3 mission.
SpaceX launched Nilesat 301 to geosynchronous transfer orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket at 5:04 p.m. Eastern on 2022-06-09 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The U.S. Space Force delivered the first of two military communications payloads for Space Norway’s Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) on 2022-06-08.
Nilesat 301 was lifted to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday, 2022-06-08.
South Korea’s lunar orbiter plan is proceeding on schedule with the spacecraft set to launch 2022-08-03 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
GHGSat launched three new ABB-built optical methane sensors into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Transporter-5 mission.
Transporter-5 will use a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch multiple CubeSats from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The Space Force’s Commercial Satellite Communications Office manages 175 different contracts for satellite communications.
The Space Force is working with Deloitte to build an automated system to manage satellite communications procurements using the Salesforce customer relations management platform.
Vandenberg Space Force Base is located in California and provides space companies an outlet to launch into polar orbit.
The Space Force’s Space Systems Command on 2022-05-12 announced plans to award a contract in August for the Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS-3) mission.
USSF-62 includes the first military Weather System Follow-on satellite and will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Western Range into a polar orbit.