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The Cert-2 mission was important for ULA as it is aimed at obtaining certification from the US Space Force for national security missions.
The upcoming national security missions include USSF-106, launching Navigation Technology Satellite 3, and USSF-87, carrying a classified payload.
ULA will provide mission data to the Space Force for review within weeks after the Cert-2 launch.
The QuickSounder mission will launch from Firefly Aerospace’s SLC-2 launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The Space Force is not currently structured to respond to space hostage situations.
The Arctic Weather Satellite was launched on 2024-08-16 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-11 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The Falcon 9 booster used on the BlueBird 1-5 mission previously launched Crew-6, O3b mPOWER, USSF-124, and nine Starlink missions.
Falcon 9 launched AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 1-5 mission to low-Earth orbit on Thursday, 2024-09-12 at 4:52 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The U.S. Space Force requested $30,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2024.
The U.S. Space Force’s enacted budget for fiscal year 2023 was $26,300,000,000.
Proponents of the Space Force’s 2019 creation argued at the time that establishing the service would reorganize existing Air Force space personnel and assets with minimal additional costs.
The U.S. Space Force’s fiscal year 2024 budget was $29,000,000,000.
The Space Force is pushing for increased investment in space launch services, which are currently budgeted at $1,000,000,000 to $2,000,000,000 annually.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched on 2024-06-05 aboard Starliner for NASA’s Boeing Crewed Flight Test from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Freedom Space Technologies, a subsidiary of Atlas Space Operations, partnered with defense contractor Omni Federal to develop a ground system for U.S. Space Force missile-warning satellites.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Space Force are developing procedures to work side-by-side to collect and distribute space-based intelligence to military users worldwide.
The Yaogan-43 (01) mission, launched in August, had nine stars on its mission patch and later had nine satellites cataloged in orbit by U.S. Space Force’s Space Delta 2.
SpaceX targeted a Group 9-5 Falcon 9 launch of 21 Starlink satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities, from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base with liftoff targeted for 2024-08-30 at 9:58 p.m. PT and backup opportunities until 1:48 a.m. PT.
The Starlink 9-5 mission lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Space Launch Complex 4 East on 2024-08-31 at 1:48 p.m. PDT (4:48 a.m. EDT/0848 GMT).
A Falcon 9 launched 21 Starlink satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities, to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on 2024-08-31 at 3:43 a.m. ET.