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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Most U.S. Space Force sensors are designed to detect and track satellites in geosynchronous orbit at distances of 36,0 m or closer.
The Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 12:42 a.m. Eastern on 2022-03-19.
Falcon 9 launched 53 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit on Saturday, 2022-03-19 at 12:24 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The $12,000,000 funding for Orbit Fab’s contract includes $6,000,000 from the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force and $6,000,000 from Orbit Fab’s private investors.
A satellite communication payload developed by Boeing for the U.S. Space Force passed a critical design review on 2022-03-16.
U.S. Space Force Space Launch Delta 45, based in Florida, operates a hydroponics facility to support launch operations at Ascension Island Auxiliary Airfield.
Eden Grow Systems and Rhea Space Activity won a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 1 contract on 2022-03-16 to study applications of aeroponic technology for growing produce at inhospitable locations where some Space Force units are deployed.
The U.S. Space Force’s Wide Field of View spacecraft arrived safely at the launch processing facility in Florida on 2022-02-02.
USSF-12 was planned as a two-satellite mission that United Launch Alliance was preparing to launch in April on an Atlas V rocket.
United Launch Alliance received a contract in 2018 to launch USSF-12.
United Launch Alliance postponed USSF-12 on 2022-03-09 due to a customer request.
U.S. Space Force removed USSF-12 from its launch schedule on 2022-03-12.
The primary payload for USSF-12 is the geosynchronous Wide Field of View mid-size satellite equipped with a missile-warning sensor.
The approximately $1,300,000,000 Congress added for military space funds technology development projects run by the Space Force, pays for an extra Global Positioning System satellite, increases spending on small launch services, and increases funding for Space Development Agency missile-detecting satellites.
Appropriators added nearly $1,300,000,000 for U.S. Space Force and Space Development Agency projects above the Biden administration’s request for fiscal year 2022.
The Space Force research-and-development account grows from $11,200,000,000 to $11,600,000,000 in the fiscal year 2022 omnibus package.
Lawmakers inserted $260,000,000 for a new GPS satellite that the Space Force did not request.
The Space Force procurement account grows from $2,700,000,000 to $3,000,000,000 in the fiscal year 2022 omnibus package.
Astra conducted its first four orbital launches from Pacific Spaceport Complex–Alaska on Kodiak Island before conducting the 2022-02-10 launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The commercial integration cell (CIC) is a group of 10 commercial satellite operators that work side-by-side with U.S. Space Command at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.