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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On 2022-04-04, the Department of the Air Force identified six Space Force bases as candidate locations for the headquarters of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Training and Readiness Command.
The Commercial Space Futures Office opened for business in December and has received many queries from space startups looking to sell products and services to the Space Force.
Satellogic launched five additional spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on 2022-04-01.
SpaceX launched the Transporter-4 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX launched the Transporter-4 dedicated rideshare mission on 2022-04-01 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Slingshot Aerospace won a $25,200,000 Space Force contract on 2022-03-31 to develop a digital twin of the space environment.
Slingshot Aerospace will develop and deploy pilot Slingshot Laboratory programs to four U.S. Space Force education organizations: Basic Military Training, the National Security Space Institute, the 319th Combat Training Squadron, and the 533rd Training Squadron.
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. was awarded a $25.2 million, 39-month contract by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command with strategic support from SpaceWERX.
The Space Force’s fiscal year 2023 budget allocates $4,000,000,000 for operations and maintenance, which includes a 4.6% pay raise for civilian personnel.
Congress in 2022 appropriated $18,050,000,000 for the Space Force and $1,500,000,000 for the Space Development Agency.
The proposed Space Force budget for fiscal year 2023 includes $1,000,000,000 that was transferred from the Air Force to the Space Force’s military personnel account.
President Biden’s $773,000,000,000 budget request for the Defense Department for fiscal year 2023 includes $24,500,000,000 for the U.S. Space Force and the Space Development Agency.
The Space Force’s fiscal year 2023 budget allocates $15,800,000,000 for research, development, and testing.
The Space Force’s fiscal year 2023 budget allocates $1,000,000,000 for personnel costs covering 8,600 active-duty guardians.
The Space Force’s fiscal year 2023 budget allocates $3,600,000,000 for procurement of satellites and launch services.
Spire Global operates a constellation of about 40 geolocation satellites that are collecting data used by the U.S. Space Force to detect GPS jamming.
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.
On 2021-09-30 the U.S. Space Force awarded Slingshot Aerospace a $2,000,000 contract 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.
U.S. Space Force tracking data on the Space-Track.org database listed 20 objects associated with the 2022-03-15 Astra launch.
General Atomics was selected by the U.S. Space Force to launch a demonstration weather imaging satellite in 2024.