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 NROL-70 mission is planned to lift off on Thursday, 2024-03-28 from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The November 2022 Yunhai-3 launch involved a breakup of the Long March 6A upper stage that produced 37 pieces of debris tracked by the U.S. Space Force’s 18th Space Defense Squadron.
The first Yunhai-3 satellite, launched in November 2022 on a Long March 6A, is cataloged by the U.S. Space Force’s 18th Space Defense Squadron in a near-polar, near-circular orbit at 849 km altitude.
Space Systems Command is the U.S. Space Force field command responsible for acquiring, developing, and delivering resilient space capabilities and manages a $15,600,000,000 space acquisition budget for the Department of Defense.
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, 2024-03-28 for a Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
SpaceX plans the launch of the Starlink 7-18 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday evening.
The NROL-70 mission is planned to lift off on Thursday, 2024-03-28 from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1:40 p.m. EDT (1740 UTC).
The Delta family has flown 388 launches to date, including 293 launches from the East Coast and 95 launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) manages a $15,600,000,000 space acquisition budget for the Department of Defense.
The Space Force’s unfunded priorities list totaled $1,100,000,000 and did not make it into the fiscal year 2025 budget proposal the Pentagon submitted to Congress on 2024-03-11.
The Pentagon’s fiscal year 2025 budget proposal submitted to Congress on 2024-03-11 included $29,400,000,000 for the Space Force.
The U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command submitted a combined $2,300,000,000 in unfunded requirements to Congress last week.
The U.S. Space Force was formed in 2019 to oversee military space activities.
Open Cosmos launched the HAMMER Earth observation satellite on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 as part of the Transporter 10 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying South Korea’s first indigenous spy satellite was at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 2023-12-01.
Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit on 2024-03-25 at 7:42 p.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
BurstCube traveled to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission that launched at 4:55 p.m. EDT on 2024-03-21 from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
Liftoff for NROL-70 is planned for Thursday, 2024-03-28 at 1:40 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-37 (SLC-37) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and United Launch Alliance (ULA) are preparing to launch NROL-70 no earlier than 2024-03-28 from SLC-37B at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Space Force are working with the National Reconnaissance Office to develop a dedicated constellation of sensor satellites specifically designed for Ground Moving Target Indication (GMTI).