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Over the five years of the NSSL Phase 2 contract, the U.S. Space Force will have ordered a total of 48 missions.
The Space Force selected ULA’s Vulcan Centaur to launch all Phase 2 missions.
USSF-57 will launch the first of three Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared geostationary satellites designed for missile warning.
The Phase II contract from AFWERX is the third contract Rogue Space Systems received in recent weeks and brings Rogue’s total USAF and USSF awards to $7,500,000 over the past 18 months.
SILENTBARKER 2/NROL-118 is a joint National Reconnaissance Office and U.S. Space Force mission to provide space domain awareness for the Department of Defense and the intelligence community.
STP-5 is a Space Test Program mission for the U.S. Space Force that will launch two satellites in support of the Department of Defense Strategic Capabilities Office.
SpaceX’s upcoming NSSL missions include USSF-52, which was awarded in 2018 and is not part of Phase 2.
On 2023-10-30 at 7:20 p.m. ET a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
USSF-67 launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in January 2023.
The Space Force is seeking focal plane arrays for MEO satellites that are easier to manufacture, more resistant to attack, and more sensitive to fast hypersonic missiles.
Frank Calvelli, as the Space Force senior procurement executive, directed changes in satellite programs to move away from traditional geostationary missile-warning platforms toward more proliferated, resilient networks of small satellites.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle carrying 23 Starlink satellites (Starlink-118 / Starlink 6-25) was aborted at 00:16 UTC on 30 2023-10-01 (29 2023-10-20:16 EDT) at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The Space Force requested about $500,000,000 in its 2024 budget for MEO missile-defense satellites and projects to spend $3,500,000,000 through fiscal year 2028.
SpaceX had scheduled a double-header with 23 Starlink satellites set to launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in late October 2023.
The U.S. Space Force plans to procure 27 missile-defense satellites for a medium Earth orbit constellation.
The Space Force intends to buy MEO satellites through fixed-price contracts from multiple vendors to maintain competition.
On 29 October 2023 at 02:00 a.m. PT, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
AAC Clyde Space delivered the VDES CubeSat Ymir-1 to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California for launch integration for a planned launch in November 2023.
The pad is scheduled to host the Falcon 9 CRS-29 cargo mission on 2023-11-05 followed by a Falcon Heavy mission for the Space Force in late November.
The Space Force plans to replace as many as 12 SCN parabolic satellite dishes with electronic phased array antennas now in development by BlueHalo under a $1,400,000,000 contract.