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 SpaceX Transporter-3 rideshare mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 13 January 2022 at 15:25 UTC.
The Space Force plans to select one or more vendors to build an electro-optical infrared weather system in low Earth orbit for the Defense Department.
In 2020 the Space Force selected Raytheon, General Atomics, and ASTRA Space to develop electro-optical infrared weather satellite concepts.
The Space Force wants to start buying commercial EO/IR weather data as a service in 2025 to supplement future satellites.
DcubeD's payload flew on SpaceX's Transporter-3 mission, the company's third dedicated smallsat rideshare, launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Atomos Space has won and executed over $2,000,000 in contracts with NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Space Force.
The Space Force’s planned EO/IR satellites need to be deployed by 2025 before the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellites run out of fuel.
The launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station will deploy over 100 satellites into Sun-Synchronous Orbit.
SpaceX’s 2022-01-13 Falcon 9 launch lifted the Transporter-3 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 10:25 a.m. Eastern on 2022-01-13.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch on Thursday, 13 January at UTC 15:25 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Atomos Space has executed over $2,000,000 in contracts with NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Space Force to support its OTV plans.
Under the planned realignment, the Space Development Agency will be part of the Space Force but will not be merged under the Space Systems Command.
The Space Force must continue to operate at last year’s reduced funding under the continuing resolution.
The Biden Administration proposed a $2,000,000,000 funding increase for the Space Force in fiscal year 2022.
A Space Force forecast projected Western Range launches to increase from 23 in 2022 to 38 in 2027 because of commercial activity.
The Space Force requires all vehicles launching from the Eastern and Western Ranges to use an autonomous flight safety system by October 2025.
A Space Force forecast projected Eastern Range launches to increase from 57 in 2022 to 119 in 2027, driven almost entirely by commercial activity.
Virgin Orbit signed a deal with the U.S. Space Force in 2020 to launch from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam.
Before the Space Force was established, the Air Force conducted an analysis of alternatives on future military satcom needs that started in 2016 and concluded in 2018.