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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NOAA’s second Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-2) is scheduled to launch in September 2022 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
Two U.S. Space Force missions that had been scheduled to use Falcon Heavy in 2021 slipped into the following year.
Lt. Col. Walter 'Rock' McMillan leads SpaceWERX, a Space Force organization created to work with the emerging commercial space industry.
Embedded Ventures signed a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Space Force to provide insights on venture capital investment practices and discuss ways for the government to leverage privately funded technology.
Braxton Technologies was selected in 2017 to develop enterprise ground services (EGS) for U.S. Space Force satellite operations.
Olson is the mobilization assistant to Gen. John Raymond, chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force.
Brig. Gen. John Olson is the senior reserve officer of the U.S. Space Force.
The U.S. Space Force is responsible for the protection of satellites and other assets in orbit.
The Atlas 5 lifted off at 5:19 a.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
LDPE-1 hosted six U.S. Space Force experiments focused on space weather and situational awareness on the STP-3 mission.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launched the Space Test Program-3 (STP-3) mission for the U.S. Space Force on 2021-12-07.
The compromise National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 included a provision directing the Department of Defense to identify Space Force programs that could be declassified or have their classification lowered.
The Space Force renamed the Space and Missile Systems Center to Space Systems Command in August.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Rocket Lab $24,300,000 in September to support work on Neutron’s upper stage.
The U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command lack credible options to deter and defeat ASAT attacks across all orbital regimes.
The Space Force established an analysis center that uses modeling and simulations to help design the future space architecture.
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) launched on 2021-11-24 at 1:21 a.m. EST on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The Falcon 9 lifted off at 1:21 a.m. Eastern on 2021-11-24 from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Space Force conducted the system level Critical Design Review for the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (NGG) Block 0 program on 2021-10-28.
Lockheed Martin, in partnership with the U.S. Space Force, is developing and building three NGG Block 0 satellites.