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Planned remaining launches in 2023 included the Space Force X-37B mission, additional Starlink missions, SARah launches, and the Ovzon-3 communications satellite.
A Falcon Heavy launch of the U.S. Space Force X-37B spaceplane from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center was scrubbed on 2023-12-11 because of a ground equipment issue and was delayed to no earlier than 2023-12-28 reportedly because of issues with the rocket.
Fly the Lightning will launch from Firefly’s SLC-2 complex at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Millennium Space Systems contracts worth $509,500,000 for the first six satellites of a medium Earth orbit constellation to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
Fly the Lightning will launch from Firefly’s SLC-2 complex at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The Falcon Heavy launch window for USSF-52 on 2023-12-28 opens at 7:00 p.m. ET and lasts four hours.
A planned Falcon Heavy liftoff for USSF-52 on Monday, 2023-12-11 at 8:24 p.m. EST was scrubbed about 30 minutes before the planned liftoff.
Those Falcon Heavy side boosters previously supported the USSF-44, USSF-67, Hughes JUPTER 3, and NASA’s Psyche missions.
SpaceX targeted no earlier than Wednesday, 2023-12-13 for Falcon Heavy to launch USSF-52 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
SpaceX is targeting no earlier than Thursday, 2023-12-28 for Falcon Heavy to launch USSF-52 to orbit from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
ALISIO-1 was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on SpaceX's Falcon 9.
The $30,100,000,000 authorization for the U.S. Space Force is about $79,000,000 below President Biden’s request.
The NDAA does not establish a Space National Guard and directs a feasibility study on the consolidation or transfer of space functions of the National Guard to the Space Force.
The 2023-12-14 reusable test spacecraft mission was placed into a 333 by 348-kilometer orbit inclined by 50 degrees according to U.S. Space Force space domain awareness cataloging.
The NDAA establishes a legislative liaison of the Space Force to perform legislative affairs functions under the direction of the Chief of Space Operations.
The NDAA directs the Space Force to submit a plan to improve threat-sharing arrangements with commercial space operators that are under contract with the Department of Defense.
The Space Force has expressed interest in buying commercial services to refuel and service satellites in geostationary orbit by the early 2030s.
The compromise NDAA authorizes $30,100,000,000 for the U.S. Space Force.
U.S. Space Forces-Space was officially activated on 2023-12-06 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
SpaceX previously scrubbed the Falcon Heavy launch of USSF-52 about 30 minutes before a planned 8:24 p.m. EST liftoff on Monday, 2023-12-11.