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 Space Force was purpose-built from the ground up with support from the U.S. Air Force, creating an operational partnership between the two services.
A Falcon 9 launch of Starlink satellites was scheduled no earlier than 2022-03-08 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Space Force leaders unveiled details of the Space Systems Command reorganization at the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium on 2024-03-04.
Frank Kendall issued a list of budget priorities called 'operational imperatives' for the Air Force and Space Force to better compete with China.
Frank Kendall directed the Space Force to make U.S. space systems resilient enough to endure attacks.
Under Frank Kendall's direction, the Space Force issued a request for information to industry on enhancing the protection and resilience of space constellations.
Lockheed Martin selected Raytheon Technologies and Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace to develop mission payload designs as part of risk-reduction efforts to meet the U.S. Space Force imperative to launch the first NGG satellite by 2025.
Boeing and the U.S. Space Force completed WGS-11+ critical design review in late 2021, launching the program’s production phase.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the GOES-T spacecraft lifted off on 2022-03-01 at 4:38 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Boeing a $605,000,000 contract for WGS-11+ in October 2019.
U.S. Space Force selected General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems and Orion Space Solutions to each develop and launch demonstration satellites for weather imaging and cloud characterization.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 launched the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) T from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on 2022-03-01 at 4:38 p.m. Eastern.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems has received nearly $200,000,000 in Space Force funding since 2020 for EWS satellite development and the three-year demonstration.
NASA’s Launch Services Program is managing the September launch of the Joint Polar Satellite System 2 spacecraft with NOAA from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
In May 2020 the U.S. Space Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $2,370,000,000 contract for the development of two Next Gen OPIR polar satellites.
The Space Force could start buying EWS satellites in 2023, and the constellation would require a constant stream of replenishment as satellites age out.
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) T satellite is scheduled to launch at 4:38 p.m. Eastern on 2022-03-01 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The GOES-T launch is on track for 2022-03-01 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The majority of launches in the United States continue to take place from Cape Canaveral in Florida and Vandenberg Space Force Base in California despite there being more than a dozen licensed spaceports.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space completed thermal vacuum testing of its sensor payload for the U.S. Space Force’s Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) GEO Block 0 missile warning satellites on 2022-01-27.