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Raytheon selected the LM 400 platform for a U.S. Space Force missile-defense program but subsequently exited the program.
The U.S. Space Force and the U.S. Air Force are exploring concepts to use Starship as a rapid global transport system capable of delivering personnel and cargo to any point on Earth in under an hour, potentially replacing platforms like the C-17 Globemaster III.
BlueHalo holds a $1,400,000,000 U.S. Space Force contract to modernize satellite communication infrastructure.
The SDA is an organization under the U.S. Space Force with a primary mission to develop and deploy a space network to enhance military detection, tracking, and countering of advanced threats.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the NSIL GSAT-N2 mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday, 2024-11-18 at 1:31 p.m. ET.
Impulse Space received a $34,500,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Safari office and the Defense Innovation Unit to support Victus Surgo and another TacRS mission.
Impulse Space previously received a STRATFI award and SBIR Phase III contracts with the United States Space Force.
Optimum Technologies was awarded a $4,500,000 contract by the U.S. Space Force to develop an optical imaging payload for a mission scheduled to fly in 2026 on an Impulse Space vehicle.
On the mid-2026 mission, Helios will transport Impulse Space’s smaller Mira vehicle, carrying a commercial optical payload, from low Earth orbit to geostationary transfer orbit on the Victus Surgo mission for the Space Force and the Defense Innovation Unit.
Impulse Space purchased three Falcon 9 launches from SpaceX for its Helios transfer vehicle for missions starting in 2026, including one mission for the U.S. Space Force.
Donald Trump established the U.S. Space Force in 2019.
Starfish Space secured a $37,500,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force.
Project 2025 recommends increasing the number of general officer positions in the U.S. Space Force to improve its ability to compete for resources with other services.
Project 2025 calls for the declassification of additional U.S. Space Force capabilities to reduce overclassification and improve public understanding and intersector coordination.
The U.S. Space Force’s National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Lane 1 program opened RFPs on 2024-10-30 for on-ramping new launch providers to an IDIQ contract valued at $5,600,000,000 over five years.
SpaceX launched 20 Starlink satellites including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California at 9:23 p.m. PT.
Neutron is eligible to compete for missions under the United States Space Force’s OSP-4 program, an IDIQ contract valued at $986,000,000.
Starfish Space won a $37,500,000 STRATFI contract with the U.S. Space Force in 2024.
The first stage booster supporting this mission previously launched OneWeb 4, USSF-62, and five Starlink missions.
Otter missions for Intelsat and the U.S. Space Force are projected to launch to geostationary orbit in 2026.