U.S. Space Systems Command (SSC) is a field command of the U.S. Space Force responsible for acquiring and delivering resilient warfighting capabilities to protect the nation's strategic advantage in space. It manages a significant space acquisition budget for the Department of Defense and works with the joint forces, government agencies, academic institutions, industry, and allied organizations. SSC is responsible for space development, acquisition, launch, and logistics, including managing U.S. space launch ranges. Key partners include the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), Space Development Agency, Missile Defense Agency, and commercial space industry partners.
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Space Systems Command set a 2026 goal to deliver technologies that will make U.S. satellites more resilient to attacks.
Claire Leon’s role requires coordinating projects across Space Systems Command and the entire space enterprise to enable horizontal integration and deliver capabilities rather than just hardware.
The $600,000,000 appropriated by Congress allowed Space Systems Command to procure a satellite vehicle that roughly doubles the capacity of the earlier WGS-10.
U.S. Space Systems Command is buying WGS-11+, which is being developed by Boeing and is projected to launch in 2024.
Space Systems Command has an $11,000,000,000 annual budget and nearly 10,000 personnel.
Space Systems Command launched an initiative to attract commercial space companies that do not typically work with the government.
Space Systems Command has a goal of transforming the military’s space architecture from one dominated by large geostationary satellites to more proliferated networks deployed in lower and higher orbits.
A 2022-01-27 request for information from the Space Systems Command’s launch enterprise seeks detailed information on providers’ capabilities and launch systems and sets responses due 2022-02-24.
SBIRS GEO-5 is the fifth of six Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellites built by Lockheed Martin for Space Systems Command.
The Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC), run by the U.S. Space Systems Command, selected SciTec and two other companies to develop applications to process infrared sensor data from Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellites.
Space Systems Command will use market research from the RFI to draft funding requirements for the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2024 budget request.
Space Systems Command’s Space Command and Control (Space C2) program began the decommissioning of Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) Mission System (JMS) Service Pack 9 (SP-9) 2022-01.
Space Systems Command, together with United Launch Alliance and its mission partners, launched the fifth and sixth Northrop Grumman-built Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program satellites on 2022-01-21 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the USSF-8 mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command lifted off on 2022-01-21 at 2:00 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
GEARRS-3 is the third cubesat launched in partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory and U.S. Space Systems Command’s Space Test Program (STP-3) to test experimental satellite-to-satellite communication systems and tracking.
Under the planned realignment, the Space Development Agency will be part of the Space Force but will not be merged under the Space Systems Command.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office and the Space Systems Command report directly to the four-star chief of space operations and receive procurement authorities from the service’s civilian acquisition executive under the secretary of the Air Force.
The Space Systems Command solicitation states that multiple sensors would be needed to provide frequent revisits of significant portions of the geostationary orbit belt.
The Space Systems Command solicitation dated 2021-10-21 states that the Space Force is considering buying a large number of space domain awareness sensors to augment current and planned systems.
Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates was one of the three contenders selected by Space Systems Command in June 2020 to develop EWS space sensor prototypes.