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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Firefly launched the U.S. Space Force’s VICTUS NOX mission in September 2023 following a 24-hour notice.
True Anomaly and Firefly will remain on call until the U.S. Space Force provides a notice to launch.
The US Space Force rejects a status quo for propulsion systems in space and is looking beyond geostationary orbit.
The U.S. Space Force awarded a $386,000,000 contract to Millennium Space Systems to build six missile-detecting and tracking satellites.
The US Space Force is developing a space data network designed as an integrated mesh operating across all orbits to increase capacity and reduce the need to bring all data to the ground.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $1,800,000,000 contract extension to begin production of two advanced early warning satellites designed to detect missile threats.
The U.S. Space Force is moving closer to establishing a commercial reserve program called the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR).
The Space Force plans to conduct a CASR war game in the national capital region early next year.
The Space Force is considering linking denial-of-service restrictions to the U.S. sanctions list to minimize impact on commercial customers.
The Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture is a mesh network of interconnected satellites that is part of the U.S. Space Force’s effort to improve space-based capabilities supporting military operations.
Space Forces Indo-Pacific is a U.S. Space Force component under U.S. Indo-Pacific Command that was established in late 2022 to plan and execute space operations across the Indo-Pacific region.
The Space Force is adopting an incremental approach to CASR, with early contracts excluding certain provisions as the military refines terms.
The Space Force plans to onboard the first wave of CASR members in early 2025.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command awarded National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 Launch Service Task Orders totaling $733,566,001 to SpaceX.
Eutelsat successfully contacted each of the 20 satellites following lift-off on a Falcon 9 rocket at 1:13 a.m. Eastern from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
A batch of 20 OneWeb microsatellites was scheduled to launch on Tuesday, 2024-10-08 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida before the FAA schedule changed.
The first stage booster supporting the OneWeb Launch 20 mission flew for the seventh time and had previously launched USSF-62 and five Starlink missions.
The two National Reconnaissance Office missions awarded to SpaceX will launch on Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
SpaceX was awarded contracts for nine launches under the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 program.
Firefly supported the U.S. Space Force VICTUS NOX mission in September 2023 with a launch conducted following a 24-hour notice.