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 U.S. Space Force awarded Slingshot Aerospace a $2,000,000 contract on 2021-09-30 to develop a prototype analytics tool that uses space-based location data from proliferated Low Earth Orbit constellations to identify potential sources of electronic ground interference.
A U.S. Space Force satellite called Monolith launched from Rocket Lab’s New Zealand site in July 2021 instead of from Wallops.
The U.S. Space Force plans to conduct a responsive space demonstration in 2023 that challenges private launch companies to deploy satellites on short notice.
Foresail-1 will be launched in the summer on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, U.S.
Northrop Grumman has more than 2,200 employees across Colorado supporting customers that include the U.S. Space Force, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Missile Defense Agency, and the intelligence community.
Vice President Kamala Harris visited Vandenberg Space Force Base and was briefed at the Combined Space Operations Center on U.S. Space Command activities during her 2022-04-18 visit.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a U.S. National Reconnaissance Office satellite designated NROL-85 into orbit on 2022-04-17 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the NROL-85 mission launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 2022-04-17, at 6:13 a.m. Pacific Time.
New orbital data from the U.S. Space Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron in late March 2022 showed Shiyan-10 in an approximately 1,853 by 38,878 km orbit with a 63.6-degree inclination.
NASA signed an agreement with the U.S. Space Force on 2022-04-07 to release data from military satellites on bolides.
The U.S. Space Force plans a cooperative role with NASA and other agencies on planetary defense through a 2018 strategy and action plan.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Astranis a nearly $1,000,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 contract in 2020 for its software-defined radio technology.
AFRL and the Space Force created the Unified Data Library, a cloud-based platform hosting space situational awareness data from commercial, academic, and government organizations.
SWOT is scheduled to launch in November from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Winkler oversaw U.S. Space Force and Space Command activities, manned and unmanned aviation, and hypersonic/counter-hypersonic weapons development within the Pentagon.
The Tetra-5 experiment is a $50,000,000 program run by the Space Force’s Space Enterprise Consortium.
The U.S. Space Force plans in 2025 to launch three small satellites to geostationary orbit that will attempt to dock with a propellant tanker for in-space refueling.
The Tetra-5 program aims to help the Space Force evaluate commercial in-space servicing technologies to extend the life of satellites in geostationary orbit.
The United States Space Force was established on 2019-12-20.
Gen. John W. Raymond was named the highest-ranking military officer of the Space Force when the service was created on 2019-12-20.