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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Astra Space’s inclusion in the OSP-4 contract preserves, stimulates, and enhances the small launch industrial base and provides the U.S. Space Force with a more diverse vendor pool.
The U.S. Space Force expects to procure approximately 20 missions under OSP-4 over the nine-year ordering period.
The U.S. Space Force plans to demonstrate later 2021 two approaches to provide rides to space for small satellites and hosted payloads, including a version of a common adapter equipped with a propulsion system.
The U.S. Space Force expects to procure approximately 20 missions from Astra and other providers under the OSP-4 contract over the nine-year ordering period.
SMC’s Launch Enterprise plans to award the next OSP-4 task order in support of the Space Test Program’s USSF-46S mission later this summer.
Tetra-1, built by Millennium Space Systems, is scheduled to launch as part of the USSF-44 mission no earlier than October on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
Astra is under contract to perform a second launch later in 2021 following the first commercial orbital launch with the United States Space Force.
Space Delta 4 at Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado operates the Space Force’s missile warning satellites.
The U.S. Space Force invested nearly $1,000,000,000 in the development of Vulcan.
The Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace payload is one of two being manufactured for the U.S. Space Force’s Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared geosynchronous satellites made by Lockheed Martin.
Rocket Lab has completed 17 commercial orbital launches to date, including a 2021-07-29 launch of a U.S. Space Force satellite.
The U.S. Space Force modified Raytheon’s existing $3,700,000,000 OCX contract for an equitable adjustment for COVID-19 impacts, including late government-furnished equipment impacts and excusable delay overrun costs.
The U.S. Space Force awarded one of two National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contracts to United Launch Alliance in August 2020.
Starliner will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The U.S. Space Force on 2021-08-02 modified Raytheon’s existing $3,700,000,000 OCX contract for an equitable adjustment for COVID-19 impacts including late government-furnished equipment impacts and excusable delay overrun costs.
The U.S. Space Force issued a request for information soliciting ideas for hosting communications payloads on GPS 3F satellites.
The Space Force is considering hosting satellite communications payloads on the GPS constellation beginning in 2030.
NASA planned an instantaneous launch window at 1:20 p.m. Eastern on 2021-07-30 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Starliner was scheduled to launch 2021-07-30 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The OFT-2 mission will launch from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.