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 CFT launch is planned for 2024-05-06 at 10:34 p.m. EDT (0234 UTC) from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The Atlas V carrying Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner is scheduled to launch on 2024-05-06 at 10:34 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The National Reconnaissance Office is targeting a 2024-05-19 launch for the mission designated NROL-146 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, 2024-05-02 for launch of the Maxar 1 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The first two spacecraft of Maxar’s six-satellite WorldView Legion constellation are scheduled to launch as soon as 2024-05-02 on a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The Space Force allocated $20,000,000 in its fiscal year 2025 budget to study the military utility of space-based services such as refueling.
Launch of the ULA Atlas V rocket and Boeing Starliner spacecraft is targeted for 10:34 p.m. EDT on 2024-05-06 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Under the SpaceWERX contract, Gravitics will leverage its commercial space station product architecture to develop orbital platforms for rapid and flexible response options for the United States Space Force.
After stage separation, the Falcon 9 booster will perform a land landing at Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
SpaceX may launch Maxar’s WorldView Legion 1 & 2 mission on 2024-05-01 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California between 11:30 AM and 12:24 PM PDT.
A Falcon 9 was originally scheduled to launch from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday, 2024-04-17 at 11:30 AM PDT (18:30 UTC) carrying two satellites with a combined mass of 1,500 kg into a sun-synchronous orbit.
Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink small satellites to low-Earth orbit on Sunday, 2024-04-28 at 6:08 p.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Space Systems Command’s Space Sensing program executive office delivered the first of two software deliveries to operations in the Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Battlespace Awareness Center (OBAC) at Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado.
Space Systems Command is the U.S. Space Force field command responsible for acquiring, developing, and delivering resilient capabilities and technologies for space operations and it manages a $15,600,000,000 space acquisition budget for the Department of Defense.
Jackal was selected for the U.S. Space Force’s 2025 tactically responsive space mission Victus Haze.
The U.S. Space Force is procuring next-generation communications satellites under an estimated $8,000,000,000 program called Evolved Strategic Satcom (ESS).
Rocket Lab and True Anomaly won Space Force contracts on 2024-04-11 to develop the Victus Haze tactically responsive space mission.
The Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Battlespace Awareness Center (OBAC) at Buckley Space Force Base provides near-real-time OPIR data exploitation products to Space Delta 4 operators and other users from the Mission Control Station.
Under the SpaceWERX contract, Gravitics will leverage its commercial space station product architecture to develop orbital platforms that enable rapid and flexible response options for the United States Space Force.
True Anomaly won a $30,000,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force to supply a spacecraft for the Victus Haze tactically responsive mission.