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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Once launched, SBIRS GEO-6 will join the U.S. Space Force’s constellation of missile warning satellites.
The LM2100 Combat Bus serves as a bridge toward achieving resilient missile warning capabilities required for the U.S. Space Force’s Next-Gen OPIR Block 0 System.
The decision for the Republic of Korea Air Force to join U.S. Space Force–led joint military drills was made during an 2021-08-27 meeting between Gen. Park In-ho and U.S. Space Force Gen. John W. Raymond at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The Space Force plans to use Tetra-1 as a test platform to assess the performance of cubesats in geostationary orbit.
Tetra-1 is scheduled to launch on the USSF-44 mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to geostationary orbit.
The USSF-44 launch had been planned for 2020 but has been delayed and is now targeted for the fourth quarter of 2021.
A U.S. Space Force missile warning experimental satellite built on a Millennium Space bus is projected to launch to geostationary orbit in 2022.
Millennium Space and Raytheon are under 18-month contracts to develop digital prototypes that the Space Force will test and evaluate as a possible addition to the U.S. missile defense network.
GOES-T will launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket.
Slingshot Aerospace initially secured a contract to develop Slingshot Laboratory for the U.S. Space Force and delivered an initial version in July 2021.
Maj. Gen. David Miller previously commanded the wing that operates the military’s missile-warning satellites at Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado.
Cesium Satellites 1 and 2 were deployed from the U.S. Space Force's Landsat-9 Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) Flight System (EFS).
Slingshot Aerospace won a Small Business Innovation Research contract from the U.S. Space Force last year to develop Slingshot Laboratory.
The United Launch Alliance Centaur stage for the Lucy mission was lifted into the Vertical Integration Facility near Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on 2021-09-16.
The transfers of Army and Navy SATCOM responsibilities to the U.S. Space Force are scheduled to be effective as of 2021-10-01 if the Department of Defense budget is passed and signed.
The U.S. Space Force’s agreement with MIT is one of several agreements the Space Force has signed with academic institutions under the University Partnership Program.
Landsat 9 launched at 2:12 p.m. EDT on Monday, 2021-09-27, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The Space Force’s Mission Manifest Office operates as the U.S. Space Force’s Gateway to Space by coordinating rides to space for Department of Defense and Intelligence Community sponsored satellite vehicles.
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V 401 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 2:12 p.m. Eastern.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:12 a.m. PDT on 2021-09-27 carrying NASA’s Landsat 9 and multiple smallsat payloads.