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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John Shaw was one of the first general officers commissioned into the U.S. Space Force.
SpaceX is targeting Friday, 2024-08-30 for a Falcon 9 Group 9-5 launch of 21 Starlink satellites, including 13 satellites with Direct to Cell capabilities, to low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
Millennium Space produced a satellite for the Victus Nox mission that launched aboard a Firefly Alpha rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in September 2023.
Firefly Aerospace and Millennium Space collaborated on the U.S. Space Force’s Victus Nox mission in 2023.
The 2024-09-02 Falcon 9 launch will occur from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
On Wednesday, 2024-08-28 at 3:48 a.m. ET, a Falcon 9 launched 21 Starlink satellites, including 13 with Direct-to-Cell capabilities, to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX targeted Wednesday, 2024-08-28 for the Falcon 9 launch of 21 Starlink satellites from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Northrop Grumman’s NG-21 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on 2024-08-04 at 11:02 a.m. EDT.
SpaceX launched 116 payloads on the Transporter-11 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
PTD-R and PTD-4 are set to launch aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-11 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Maxar Intelligence’s third and fourth WorldView Legion satellites launched on 2024-08-15 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The Cluster 10 satellites will launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base to a sun-synchronous orbit no earlier than 2024-08-16.
In 2022, Hera Systems was contracted by Orion Space Solutions to develop three satellites for the U.S. Space Force’s Tetra-5 mission, an on-orbit servicing demonstration in geostationary orbit.
Viasat confirmed the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2024-08-12.
Firefly’s Alpha rocket will launch L3Harris spacecraft into low Earth orbit from Firefly’s SLC-2 launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
LeoLabs’ customer base for first-half 2024 contract wins includes the U.S. Space Force and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
ABL Space Systems received a $60,000,000 STRATFI award in March 2023 from the U.S. Space Force and U.S. Air Force to demonstrate tactically responsive capabilities, consisting of $30,000,000 in government funding and $30,000,000 in matching private investment.
The U.S. Space Force operates Pituffik Space Base on the northwestern coast of Greenland above the Arctic Circle, and that outpost serves as a link in space operations and polar communications.
CODA facilitates the objectives of the U.S. Space Force’s Commercial Space Strategy published on 2024-04-08, to leverage commercial assets to strengthen resiliency, expand cooperation, compel integration, and spur innovation.
The JPSS-4 mission is targeted to launch from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.