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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Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) received three NSS launch service orders for USSF-124, USSF-62, and one Space Development Agency Tranche 1 mission using the Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
USSF-124 is a U.S. Space Force and Missile Defense Agency mission that will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Eastern Range into low Earth orbit.
United Launch Alliance received five NSS launch service orders for GPS III-7, USSF-23, USSF-43, WGS-11+, and USSF-16 using the Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle.
USSF-62 will be launched onboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the western range into a polar orbit and includes the first Weather System Follow-on (WSF) satellite.
USSF-16, USSF-23, and USSF-43 are classified missions to be launched onboard Vulcan Centaur rockets from the eastern range.
USSF-124 will be launched onboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the eastern range into low Earth orbit.
USSF-16, USSF-23, and USSF-43 are classified missions assigned to launch on Vulcan Centaur rockets from the Eastern Range.
U.S. Space Force awarded Launcher Space $1,700,000 on 2022-05-18 to further develop the company’s E-2 engine.
Satellogic launched four additional satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission on 2022-05-25.
On Wednesday, 2022-05-25, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Transporter-5 mission to low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Launcher won a $1,700,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force to assist development of its E-2 high-performance rocket engine for a small launch vehicle.
The OFT-2 flight test began Thursday, 2022-05-19 when Starliner launched on the ULA Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office is a U.S. Space Force organization that procures and manages classified space systems.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Rapid Capabilities Office competitively awarded an Other Transaction Agreement for the Satellite Communications Augmentation Resource program to BlueHalo in Albuquerque, New Mexico for $1,400,000,000 on 2022-05-21.
Terran Orbital Corporation delivered the Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 (PTD-3) satellite to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for integration ahead of SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission.
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket lifted off on 2022-05-19 at 6:54 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on Orbital Flight Test-2 to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
United Launch Alliance’s next launch is the USSF-12 mission for the U.S. Space Force planned for 2022-06-29 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner launched on Orbital Flight Test-2 at 6:54 p.m. EDT on Thursday, 2022-05-19, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
An Atlas V N22 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 6:54 p.m. Eastern on 2022-05-19.
Spire Global launched five satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-5 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida 2022-05.