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 National Reconnaissance Office is partnering with the U.S. Space Force to create a ground moving target indicator program.
True Anomaly will complete development and testing of its Jackal Autonomous Orbital Vehicle at its Denver facility before shipping the vehicle to Firefly Aerospace’s processing facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
True Anomaly and Firefly will remain on call until the U.S. Space Force provides a notice to launch.
On 2024-10-17, True Anomaly selected Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket to launch its Jackal autonomous orbital vehicle for a U.S. Space Force rapid-response demonstration mission.
A batch of 20 OneWeb microsatellites is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California at 10:09–10:48 PM PDT on Saturday (local time), corresponding to 1:09–3:48 AM ET on Sunday, 2024-10-21.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch carrying 20 OneWeb microsatellites originally scheduled from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday, 2024-10-08 at 11:49 PM–12:23 AM PDT was listed differently on the FAA schedule as of 2024-10-01.
Tanager-1 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 2024-08-16.
The Falcon Heavy first-stage boosters supporting the Europa Clipper launch flew their sixth and final mission on 2024-10-14 after previously launching NASA’s Psyche, USSF-44, USSF-52, USSF-67, and Hughes JUPITER 3.
ULA aims to obtain certification from the Space Force before the launch of two national security missions scheduled for the end of the year.
The Cert-2 mission was important for ULA as it is aimed at obtaining certification from the US Space Force for national security missions.
The Space Force's Space Systems Command is reviewing performance data from the Cert-2 launch.
The upcoming national security missions include USSF-106, launching Navigation Technology Satellite 3, and USSF-87, carrying a classified payload.
ULA will provide mission data to the Space Force for review within weeks after the Cert-2 launch.
SpaceX launched the ESA Hera mission to interplanetary transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday, 2024-10-07.
The QuickSounder mission will launch from Firefly Aerospace’s SLC-2 launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The Space Force is not currently structured to respond to space hostage situations.
The Arctic Weather Satellite was launched on 2024-08-16 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-11 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The Falcon 9 booster used on the BlueBird 1-5 mission previously launched Crew-6, O3b mPOWER, USSF-124, and nine Starlink missions.
Falcon 9 launched AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 1-5 mission to low-Earth orbit on Thursday, 2024-09-12 at 4:52 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
A Falcon 9 carrying the Block 1 BlueBird spacecraft lifted off at 4:52 a.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and released all five satellites into low Earth orbit about 68 minutes later.