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 U.S. Space Force revealed its new rank structure for officers and enlisted personnel on 2021-01-29.
The U.S. Space Force was created to train and equip forces that are assigned to U.S. Space Command.
Jim Cooper chairs the House Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces subcommittee that wrote the 2017 language to establish a Space Corps, which ultimately became the Space Force.
The Space Force obtained limited rights to data and hardware developed by Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman under the Launch Service Agreements in exchange for the government’s investment.
PTD-1 launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 2021-01-24.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket deployed dozens of small satellites into a Sun-synchronous orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The SXRS-3 mission launched on 2021-01-24 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Hyten has not yet spoken with President Biden or Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about the Space Force.
SpaceX targeted Saturday, 2021-01-23 for the original Transporter-1 launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with a 42-minute launch window opening at 9:40 a.m. EST (14:40 UTC).
D-Orbit launched an ION Satellite Carrier atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on 2021-01-24 at 4:00 pm CET.
Hyten strongly advocated for the establishment of the Space Force.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 143 small satellites on 2021-01-24 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act directs the Department of the Air Force and the Space Force to propose by May a revamped space acquisition process.
The Space Force plans to start planning for a new heavy-lift launch competition sometime in 2024.
The U.S. Space Force is standing up a Space Systems Command to oversee acquisitions and plans to build a space intelligence center.
A constellation of 31 GPS satellites operated by the U.S. Space Force uses radio navigation to provide positioning, navigation, and timing information to military and civilian users worldwide.
National Security Technology Accelerator received a contract on 2021-01-15 to manage the U.S. Space Force’s Space Enterprise Consortium for 10 years.
The demonstration confirmed live contacts with Space Force satellites across multiple orbital regimes at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado.
L3Harris Technologies completed development of an electronic phased array ground antenna for the U.S. Space Force on 2021-01-12.
L3Harris Technologies completed a technology demonstration under a Defense Innovation Unit prototype contract for the U.S. Space Force satellite communication system.