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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A Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 6:34 a.m. Eastern on the Bandwagon-2 mission.
The U.S. Space Force identified a low-velocity fragmentation event involving the DMSP-5D2 F14 spacecraft that took place at 9:10 p.m. Eastern on 2024-12-18 at an altitude of 840 km.
Turion Space was awarded a $32,600,000 contract by the U.S. Space Force to launch three small satellites designed to monitor and track objects such as space debris.
K2 Space secured a $30,000,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force to launch its first Mega Class satellite.
Mission Delta 31 is the Colorado-based U.S. Space Force unit that operates the GPS constellation.
LLNL’s monolithic telescopes were chosen to fly on the U.S. Space Force Victus Haze mission scheduled for 2025.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) delivered its second Pioneer spacecraft to Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2024-12-17.
Quadsat worked with the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) to perform a measurement campaign to verify U.S. Space Force’s Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) compliance.
The National Reconnaissance Office partnered with U.S. Space Force Space Launch Delta 30 and SpaceX for the NROL-149 mission.
The Space Force plans to name a two-star commander for the Futures Command and begin a basing process to select a headquarters location.
The NROL-149 mission launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 2024-12-17 at 8:19 a.m. EST.
The Space Force will establish a new Futures Command in early 2025.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the NROL-149 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 2024-12-17.
Falcon 9 launched the NROL-149 mission on Tuesday, 2024-12-17 at 5:19 a.m. PT from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on 2024-12-16 at 7:52 p.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida to send a GPS satellite to a medium orbit about 12,0 m above Earth.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 lifted the Rapid Response Trailblazer-1 (RRT-1) from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:52 PM on a mission for a U.S. national security space detail.
Starlink has secured 97% of awarded task orders under the Space Force PLEO program.
The US Space Force issued a Commercial Space Strategy to leverage innovative capabilities from the commercial sector to enhance national security space architectures.
David Cavossa, president of the Commercial Space Federation, endorsed acceptance of flight safety analyses performed by a Federal range operated by the United States Space Force and recommended the FAA also accept NASA flight safety analyses in written testimony to Congress.
The FAA will accept flight safety analyses performed by Space Launch Delta 30 for launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.