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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Vice President Mike Pence on 2020-12-09 designated the renaming of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Patrick Air Force Base as Space Force installations.
When the U.S. Space Force was signed into law on 2019-12-20, Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond identified plans to rename the principal Air Force bases that house space units to be space bases.
Todd Harrison, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, views the 2021 defense bill as providing continuity for the U.S. Space Force.
Congress established the U.S. Space Force in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.
SpaceWERX will focus on technologies for the United States Space Force.
The United States Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center Production Corps transferred Satellite Control Authority of Advanced Extremely High Frequency Space Vehicle 6 to Space Operations Command on 2020-10-29.
The U.S. Space Force awarded the contract for MCEU to Lockheed Martin in 2017.
Sarah Mineiro noted that Mike Rogers and Jim Cooper were both originators and implementers of the Space Force and Space Command legislation on the House side.
Sarah Mineiro expects Mike Rogers and Jim Cooper to continue legitimate oversight of the Space Force and Space Command.
The Fiscal Year 2021 NDAA prohibits transferring Air Force bases to the U.S. Space Force without briefing congressional defense committees and obtaining committee approval.
GPS III space vehicle SV04 received Operational Acceptance approval from the United States Space Force on 2020-12-01.
Aevum is one of eight companies selected by the Space Force for the $986 million Orbital Services Program-4.
The Space Corps bill written by Mike Rogers and Jim Cooper was defeated at the time but was resurrected in the 2020 NDAA when Congress established the U.S. Space Force.
Aevum's first launch will be a U.S. Space Force mission called Agile Small Launch Operational Normalizer, or ASLON-45.
SBIRS GEO-5 and SBIRS GEO-6 are slated to join the U.S. Space Force’s constellation of missile-warning satellites equipped with powerful scanning and staring infrared surveillance sensors.
The Secure World Foundation released a report on 2020-12-02 criticizing the Space Force for not moving fast enough to consolidate acquisition offices.
Space Force organizations that oversee space launches at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, will become part of Space Systems Command.
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act established the U.S. Space Force.
Slingshot Aerospace is working with the United States Space Force to create Slingshot Orbital Laboratory.
The U.S. Space Force has a large network of sensors on the ground and in space to track objects orbiting the Earth.