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 USSF says future deterrence will rely on visible resilience, rapid reconstitution, credible attribution, and integrated campaigning with allies.
The U.S. Space Force expects to significantly increase launches to highly stressing orbits in 2027 through 2029.
The USSF is collaborating with U.S. Space Command on space tugs and high-thrust reusable orbital transfer vehicles.
The Space Force plans to demonstrate an initial space-based interceptor capability in 2028.
B1064 and B1065 were assigned to USSF-44.
The United States Space Force Space Systems Command Space Safari Office awarded Scout Space Inc. a $3.2 million Tactical Funding Increase Sequential Phase II contract for advanced on-board data processing for space domain awareness.
The Space Force released a request for prototype proposals for space-based interceptors as part of Golden Dome last September.
The Space Force plans to demonstrate an initial Golden Dome capability in 2028.
B1064 and B1065 were assigned to USSF-44 before Psyche was delayed.
The USSF expects future conflicts to combine electronic warfare, cyber manipulation, high-power directed energy, and physical disablement.
The Space Force envisions the space-based interceptor system as a proliferated low-Earth orbit constellation of interceptors capable of boost, midcourse, and glide phase engagements.
The Space Force planned to award multiple fixed-price OTAs for the space-based interceptor program and to incorporate prize competitions.
The Space Force awarded 12 companies contracts totaling up to $3.2 billion to prototype technologies for space-based interceptors in support of the Golden Dome initiative.
SpaceWERX administers Tactical Funding Increase awards for the U.S. Space Force.
Space Force Col. Bryon McClain is the program executive officer for Space Combat Power.
The GPS III-8 mission completed the upgrade of the U.S. Space Force’s 32-satellite active GPS constellation.
The fiscal year 2027 budget request includes a proposed doubling of the total Space Force budget to $71 billion.
The Space Force expects to demonstrate an initial space-based interceptor capability in 2028.
Lanteris Space Systems is Intuitive Machines’ primary vehicle for defense growth and is targeted at the U.S. Space Force’s proliferated military space architectures.
The Space Force expects to replace vulnerable legacy satellite architectures with resilient, interconnected mesh networks under the Golden Dome effort.