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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Starfish Space secured a $37,500,000 contract with the U.S. Space Force to develop, launch, and operate the company’s Otter satellite servicing vehicle in geostationary orbit by 2026.
The US Space Force maintains the official Satellite Catalog.
Each EPS-R payload met all technical requirements and is ready for shipment to Vandenberg Space Force Base, California to support a launch window in mid-July 2024.
Trevor Bennett is a co-founder of Starfish Space and the company intends to collaborate with the Space Force to build capabilities for dynamic space operations.
US Space Force refers to the COSPAR as the 'International Designator.'
The Space Force fiscal year 2024 space domain awareness request represents a $120,000,000 increase from two years prior.
The Space Force fiscal year 2024 funds for space domain awareness would support ground-based radars, optical telescopes, space-based surveillance systems, commercial data purchases, and data analytics services.
The U.S. Space Force requested $612,000,000 for space domain awareness in its fiscal year 2024 budget proposal.
On 2024-05-14 Boeing rescheduled the CFT launch for no earlier than 2024-05-21 at 4:43 p.m. Eastern on an Atlas V from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
NROL-146 is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base (Space Launch Delta 30) on 2024-05-19.
In 2020 the Space Force awarded United Launch Alliance one of two National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contracts with ULA winning 60% of missions over five years and SpaceX receiving 40%.
Portal Space Systems received more than $3,000,000 in funding from the Department of Defense and the United States Space Force to support development and launch of the Supernova satellite bus.
On 2024-05-08, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s space imaging payload was selected for a U.S. Space Force mission to test military capabilities to rapidly deploy satellites in response to threats in orbit.
The EarthCARE satellite will launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
The EarthCARE satellite will launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
The first two Maxar WorldView Legion satellites launched on 2024-05-02 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
A Lawrence Livermore payload was used in a Space Force tactically responsive mission launched in 2021.
Space Force officials argue that service units should operate the GMTI satellites.
SpaceX targeted Wednesday, 2024-05-08 for a Falcon 9 launch of 20 Starlink satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities, to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California with liftoff targeted for 7:48 p.m. PT and backup opportunities available until 10:30 p.m. PT.
The first stage booster supporting the 2024-05-08 SLC-4E mission was flying for the fourth time after previously launching USSF-62 and two Starlink missions.