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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Firefly acknowledges support provided by the United States Space Force through Space Launch Delta 30 at Vandenberg Space Force Base and by the FAA.
The United States Space Force provided support for Alpha Flight 1 through Space Launch Delta 30 at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
ManTech received a $476,000,000 prime contract from the U.S. Space Force.
The U.S. Space Force’s Commercial Satellite Communications Office manages $4,600,000,000 worth of contracts, with most contracts for satellite bandwidth rather than for managed services.
The U.S. Space Force plans to acquire commercial satcom as an inventory of capabilities that military users could choose from in the future.
The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Center awarded Space Micro a $3,000,000 contract in 2020 for a µLCT 100 terminal.
The U.S. Space Force’s launch enterprise awarded ManTech a $476,000,000 contract on 2021-09-07 to provide systems engineering and integration services for 10 years.
The Space Force plans to select at least one EWS contractor for an on-orbit demonstration in 2023.
The Space Enterprise Consortium is a U.S. Space Force organization that works with startups and commercial space companies.
The Alpha launch occurred on 2021-09-02 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Virgin Orbit won a $35,000,000 Space Force contract last year for three launches to be scheduled over the next two years.
The U.S. Space Force paid $28,000,000 for the TacRL-2 launch.
The demonstration was part of Omnispace's Phase II Small Business Innovation and Research contract in cooperation with U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command.
Firefly Aerospace’s first launch of its Alpha rocket from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base ended in failure when the rocket exploded about two and a half minutes after liftoff on 2021-09-02.
Alpha is scheduled to lift off during a four-hour window that opens at 9 p.m. Eastern on 2021-09-02 from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The launch of Landsat 9 on an Atlas 5 from Vandenberg Space Force Base slipped from 2021-09-16 to no earlier than 2021-09-23 due to pandemic demands for medical liquid oxygen impacting delivery of the needed liquid nitrogen supply.
The Defense Logistics Agency informed the Landsat 9 project on 2021-08-23 that liquid nitrogen supplies at Vandenberg Space Force Base were critically low and could not support upcoming prelaunch test activities or the launch itself.
Liquid nitrogen (LN2) is used to create gaseous nitrogen needed to support launch site activities at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Firefly Aerospace scheduled the inaugural launch of its Alpha rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2021-09-02 during a four-hour window that opens at 9 p.m. Eastern.
The Space Force launched the Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) mission on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket.