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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SpaceWERX is a new organization created to match technologies developed by commercial space businesses with Space Force buyers.
The U.S. Space Force established SpaceWERX in 2020 to speed adoption of commercial technology for government missions.
The Department of the Air Force submitted a proposal to Congress on 2022-04-01 to establish a regular active-duty U.S. Space Force with full-time and part-time members instead of a dedicated reserve force.
An earlier version of the proposal submitted on 2022-04-01 and rejected by the White House had recommended a two-component construct combining the regular Space Force and Air Force Reserve space professionals into a combined component and creating a single reserve component Space National Guard generated by seamless transition of current Air National Guard units performing space missions.
The U.S. Space Force requested an additional $200,000,000 in fiscal year 2023 to launch satellites for the Space Development Agency’s missile-tracking constellation.
The Space Force included the $200,000,000 launch funding in a $600,000,000 unfunded requirements list submitted to Congress on 2023-04-06.
NTS-3 is projected to launch on the USSF-106 mission planned by the U.S. Space Force.
GSSAP satellites 5 and 6 launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on 2022-01-21.
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) was awarded $117,000,000 for option-year three of a U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command contract to maintain and modernize infrastructure to track objects in space.
Boeing completed the PTES program’s first over-the-air forward-link demonstration using a PTW modem in August 2021 with the U.S. Space Force.
The combined 2023 budget for the Space Force and the Space Development Agency is nearly $5,000,000,000 higher than what Congress appropriated in 2022.
The president’s fiscal year 2023 budget request released 2022-03-28 contains a substantial increase for the Space Force, with the vast majority of that increase allocated to investment in future space capabilities.
The Pentagon's $773,000,000,000 budget request for fiscal year 2023 includes $24,500,000,000 for the Space Force.
The Space Force budget request for fiscal year 2023 is 40% higher than its 2022 request.
The U.S. Space Force cannot continue acquiring satellites and deploying constellations the same way it has in the past due to increased complexities in the current space environment.
The U.S. Space Force is standing up a new office to buy nontraditional commercial space services and is developing contracting mechanisms for services such as space domain awareness.
Vulcan missions for Project Kuiper will launch from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The Project Kuiper launches on New Glenn are manifested for a five-year period from Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Aerospace Corp is a federally funded corporation based in Los Angeles that provides technical support to the Space Force and other agencies.
The U.S. Space Force and NASA are supporting construction of Starship test and launch facilities in Florida.