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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SpaceX’s Dragon resupply spacecraft launched on a Falcon 9 rocket on 2024-03-21 at 4:55 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The fiscal year 2024 Space Force appropriation is about $1,000,000,000 less than the $30,000,000,000 the Biden administration requested.
U.S. Space Force deploys Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites as imaging satellites that perform detailed observation of other satellites.
The U.S. Space Force is receiving approximately $29,000,000,000 in the fiscal year 2024 compromise package.
The fiscal year 2024 Space Force appropriation represents a roughly $2,700,000,000 increase compared to the enacted fiscal year 2023 appropriation of $26,300,000,000.
Appropriators reduced the Space Force RDT&E account from $19,000,000,000 to $18,600,000,000 for fiscal year 2024.
Ground-based sensors are limited by distance and weather, leading the Space Force and the intelligence community to develop new surveillance satellites for GEO monitoring.
Appropriators reduced the Space Force procurement request from $4,600,000,000 to $4,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2024.
Firefly Aerospace delivered the ESA spacecraft from Lockheed Martin’s production facility in Colorado to Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Congress appropriated $26,300,000,000 for the U.S. Space Force in the enacted fiscal year 2023 budget passed in December 2022.
Falcon 9 launched Dragon’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-30) on Thursday, 2024-03-21 at 4:55 p.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Lockheed Martin uses Terran Orbital’s satellite buses to build small satellites for the U.S. Space Force as part of the Space Development Agency’s proliferated mesh network of satellites in low Earth orbit.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch the CRS-30 investigations no earlier than Thursday, 2024-03-21, at 4:55 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Three Space Force Tetra-5 satellites equipped with RAFTI ports are projected to launch in 2025 to geostationary orbit for a refueling demonstration.
The Space Force’s Tactically Responsive Space program aims to reduce the time to launch and operate satellites from weeks or months down to days or hours.
The Defense Innovation Unit is helping the Space Force establish a process to work with industry and forge agreements with companies for responsive missions.
The Defense Innovation Unit is working with the Space Force’s Space Safari office to identify and select commercial providers for a responsive mission named Victus Haze.
The Space Force’s Tactically Responsive Space program has $30,000,000 allocated in the fiscal year 2024 budget and $30,000,000 allocated in the fiscal year 2025 budget.
The Space Force will competitively award each mission ordered under the OSP-4 contract among the IDIQ awardees.
The first two of six planned WorldView Legion satellites had arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California by 2024-03-18.