All verified mentions of this organization in source documents.
U.S. Space Command was established on 2019-08-29.
The Air Force Space Command directed personnel on 2019-10-04 to stop using the term “space situational awareness” and instead use the term “space domain awareness”.
The Air Force Space Command introduced the term Space Domain Awareness (SDA) as a replacement for Space Situational Awareness (SSA).
Maj. Gen. John Shaw, the deputy commander of Air Force Space Command, wrote a memo on October 4 emphasizing the need for SDA.
Roger Thompson, a senior engineer at The Aerospace Corp., indicated that Air Force Space Command leaders debated the terminology change before adopting SDA.
The Air Force Space Command assumed responsibility for procuring commercial satcom services for the Department of Defense in December 2018 by congressional mandate.
Air Force Space Command will hold a tabletop exercise 2019-11-05-7 in Chantilly, Virginia focused on the future of military launch facilities and their ability to support growth in commercial space.
Air Force Space Command has no established timeline for any transition of range organization and is not actively seeking vendors at this time.
U.S. Space Command was re-established as a separate combatant command in 2019.
U.S. Space Command was first established in 1985 and merged into U.S. Strategic Command in 2002.
General John Raymond has been authorized to build roughly a 300-person staff at U.S. Space Command’s temporary headquarters.
Air Force Space Command took over responsibility in December for procuring the Defense Department’s commercial satellite communications services from the Defense Information Systems Agency.
William Shelton is a retired Air Force general who led Air Force Space Command and is a member of Voyager Space Holdings' board of directors.
In June 2018 the Air Force awarded SpaceX a $130,000,000 contract to launch the Air Force Space Command-52 (AFSPC-52) satellite aboard Falcon Heavy.
Air Force Space Command released a report on 2019-09-05 titled "The Future of Space 2060 and Implications for U.S. Strategy" based on a workshop the command hosted with experts and academics.
Air Force Space Command intends the futures in the "The Future of Space 2060" report to provide inputs for national strategy and policy making rather than to dictate a single path forward.
Functions of the pre-2002 U.S. Space Command were absorbed by U.S. Strategic Command to free resources to create U.S. Northern Command.
U.S. Space Command intends to improve space intelligence by working more closely with foreign allies, the U.S. intelligence community, and commercial companies that provide SSA data.
The United States previously had a U.S. Space Command from 1985 until 2002 when it was dissolved by the George W. Bush administration.
The Senate Appropriations Committee included $70,000,000 in the Air Force Operations and Maintenance account for U.S. Space Command.