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’s Space Systems Command gave Impulse Space an on-ramp to the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 program.
The U.S. Space Force intends to use Helios to add operational flexibility to its rapid deployment pipelines.
Impulse Space secured a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command on July 8, 2026.
ESA’s CyberCUBE mission launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on a Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX launched the Transporter-17 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Tuesday morning.
SpaceX’s Transporter-17 rideshare mission launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 3:12 a.m. and carried 81 payloads to low Earth orbit.
The seven GRUS-3 microsatellites are scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 7:15 a.m. UTC as part of the Transporter-17 rideshare mission.
CyberCUBE launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the Transporter-17 small-satellite rideshare mission.
The Space Force adopted a mission-aligned model of court-martial convening authority in which a Delta commander serves as special court-martial convening authority for forces under his command, regardless of installation.
SpaceX will launch Transporter-17 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The Space Force was established without its own legal career field and relies on Air Force judge advocates, a judiciary system, a defense bar, and victim’s counsel provided by the Air Force.
The US Space Force was established in December 2019 by redesignating the legacy Air Force Space Command as U.S. Space Force.
Todd Pennington served as Staff Judge Advocate for US Space Force and as Judge Advocate for United States Space Command.
The U.S. Space Force and True Anomaly completed the first tactical operational sortie under the VICTUS HAZE mission on July 1, 2026.
The successful VICTUS HAZE sortie established a repeatable operational benchmark for the Space Force’s Tactical Responsive Space cadence.
The Space Force issued a snap launch notice to Rocket Lab on June 19, 2026.
On July 2, 2026, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released an annual defense acquisition assessment of the U.S. Space Force’s major procurement portfolio.
The U.S. Space Force’s primary satellite and ground segment lines have incurred $11.4 billion in cumulative cost overruns above original program baselines.
GAO-26-107564 identified an aggregate 32% cost escalation across the U.S. Space Force’s primary satellite and ground segment lines.
True Anomaly is competing for operational tranches under the U.S. Space Force’s $6.2 billion Andromeda program.