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President Donald Trump issued a 2018-12-18 memo instructing the Pentagon to establish a United States Space Command as a functional Unified Combatant Command.
SpaceX performed 13 booster landings during launches supported by Air Force Space Command in 2018.
In 2018 Air Force Space Command supported 33 satellite launches including nine military launches, five civil launches, and 19 commercial launches.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson projected costs of $13,000,000,000 over five years for both a Department of the Space Force and U.S. Space Command, with about half of that amount attributed to the department.
The 2018-12-18 presidential memo directed the Secretary of Defense to recommend officers for nomination and Senate confirmation as Commander and Deputy Commander of United States Space Command.
President Donald Trump issued a 2018-12-18 memo directing the establishment of United States Space Command as a functional Unified Combatant Command.
President Trump directed the Defense Department to establish U.S. Space Command as a four-star combatant command.
President Donald Trump directed the Department of Defense to establish a U.S. Space Command as a unified combatant command.
The United States had a U.S. Space Command from 1985 until 2002 that was disestablished and whose functions were absorbed by U.S. Strategic Command during the George W. Bush administration to free resources to create U.S. Northern Command.
A 2018-12-18 presidential memo instructed the Pentagon to establish a United States Space Command as a functional Unified Combatant Command and directed the Secretary of Defense to recommend officers for nomination and Senate confirmation as Commander and Deputy Commander of the new command.
Gen. John Raymond, commander of Air Force Space Command, argued in October 2017 that the Air Force would be 'absolutely foolish' not to utilize SpaceX’s reused rockets to take advantage of cost savings.
Congress in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act directed Air Force Space Command to take over responsibility for procurement of commercial satcom services for the Department of Defense by 2018-12-12.
A secret Center for Naval Analyses report circulating in the Pentagon produced cost estimates for a new space service (not including Space Command) that are consistent with Heather Wilson’s $13,000,000,000 five-year estimate.
DoD sources attribute about half of Heather Wilson’s $13,000,000,000 estimate to costs for U.S. Space Command.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson’s estimate for establishing a new service and a space command was $13,000,000,000 over five years.
The Pentagon is moving to establish a U.S. Space Command and a Space Development Agency in early 2019.
Congress directed U.S. Air Force Space Command to assume responsibility for the procurement of commercial satellite communications services for the Department of Defense no later than December 2018.
Congress appropriated $49,500,000 in the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2019 budget to set up the new Air Force Space Command office for commercial satcom procurement.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 ordered the Defense Information Systems Agency to transfer responsibility for buying commercial bandwidth to Air Force Space Command.
The Space Force is part of a broader reorganization of U.S. military space capabilities that includes reestablishing U.S. Space Command and creating a Space Development Agency to handle space acquisition.