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 administers the Link-182 contract and is headquartered at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California.
Space Systems Command issued a Space-to-Space Communications Broad Agency Announcement in September 2025 that calls for development and demonstration of resilient satellite communications and networking technologies for contested space environments.
The United States Space Force Space Systems Command Space Safari Office awarded Scout Space Inc. a $3.2 million Tactical Funding Increase Sequential Phase II contract for advanced on-board data processing for space domain awareness.
The Space Safari Office at Space Systems Command is headquartered at Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, California.
Space Systems Command’s Space Combat Power program executive office sought space-based interceptor ideas in four areas: exoatmospheric interceptors, endoatmospheric interceptors, common ground elements, and fire control elements.
Space Systems Command awarded 20 Other Transaction Authority contracts in late 2025 and early 2026 for the space-based interceptor program.
On April 24, 2026, U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command awarded 20 contracts with a combined potential value of $3.2 billion to develop space-based interceptor capabilities.
Astroscale U.S. has a Space Systems Command contract worth $61 million to deliver the first operational hydrazine refueling above geosynchronous Earth orbit.
Space Systems Command’s Commercial Space Office expects to make its first Commercial Space Augmentation Reserve award in 2025 beginning with space domain awareness.
Space Systems Command’s Commercial Space Office was established in 2023 to integrate commercial capabilities into the Space Force space architecture.
On April 14, 2026, the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin Space a $68,546,456 contract modification for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Geosynchronous (GEO) program.
The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command’s EO/IR Weather System program will use the GA-EMS payload.
The Andromeda acquisition was opened in January, received 32 proposals, and will run across the United States through April 2036 under Space Systems Command direction.
The contracts are part of the Andromeda program run by the Space Systems Command.
L3Harris Technologies received a $150 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command under the MOSSAIC program on April 7.
Space Systems Command’s Rocket System Launch Program managed the launch service for STP-S29A.
The STP-S29A mission was conducted in support of the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command.
Following insertion into low Earth orbit, Space Systems Command’s System Delta 89 will oversee on-orbit operations for the STP-S29A payloads.
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command awarded 14 companies more than $1.8 billion in firm fixed-price Andromeda contracts for the Geosynchronous Reconnaissance & Surveillance Constellation satellites.
Starfish Space has announced five Otter customers, including Luxembourg’s SES, NASA, two Space Force Space Systems Command customers, and one Space Force Space Development Agency customer.