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U.S. Space Force

US
gov defenseFounded 2019
Washington, D.C., United States
www.spaceforce.mil/
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The US X-37B is one of two Boeing-designed spaceplanes utilized by the Space Force as a testing platform for payloads in the space environment.

Mentioned as: Space ForceTechnical ProductSep 25, 2023Hiding in plain sight: Is China’s spaceplane a co-orbital ASAT in disguise?

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched 21 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit on Monday, 2023-09-25 at 1:48 a.m. PT (08:48 UTC) from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceOrg RelationshipSep 25, 2023Monday morning’s successful launch from California of SpaceX’s 21 Starlink smallsats

A potential client for an in-space demonstration could be one of the Tetra-5 small satellites projected to launch in 2025 for an on-orbit refueling experiment funded by the Space Force and the Defense Innovation Unit.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceNarrative GeneralSep 25, 2023U.S. Space Force and Astroscale to co-invest in a refueling satellite

The $25,500,000 contract awarded to Astroscale was funded by a $30,000,000 congressional earmark added to the Space Force’s 2023 budget.

Mentioned as: the space forceOrg RelationshipSep 25, 2023U.S. Space Force and Astroscale to co-invest in a refueling satellite

China's Strategic Space Force is responsible for conducting space launches and maintaining situational awareness in space.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceNarrative GeneralSep 25, 2023Hiding in plain sight: Is China’s spaceplane a co-orbital ASAT in disguise?

OSIRIS-REx launched on 2016-09-08, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceNarrative GeneralSep 24, 2023OSIRIS-REx sample capsule safely touches down with NASA’s first asteroid sample

The transfer of GOES-15 to the Space Force was announced on 2023-09-22.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceNarrative GeneralSep 23, 2023Space Force gets another weather satellite from NOAA

The Space Force repurposed GOES-13 in 2020 as the Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System EWS-G1.

Mentioned as: Space ForceTechnical ProductSep 23, 2023Space Force gets another weather satellite from NOAA

The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command awarded a $17,400,000 Phase III Small Business Innovation Research contract to True Anomaly, Inc.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceOrg RelationshipSep 22, 2023True Anomaly lands $17 million U.S. Space Force contract for SDA

True Anomaly will provide a suite of Space Domain Awareness applications that leverage powerful analytics and scalable AI to support human-machine teaming for improved efficiency across the spectrum of SDA operations under the Phase III award.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceOrg RelationshipSep 22, 2023True Anomaly Awarded $17 Million U.S. Space Force Contract for Space Domain Awareness

Gen. Chance Saltzman is chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force and supports the Commerce Department’s focus on establishing TraCSS.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceOrg RelationshipSep 22, 2023Office of Space Commerce touts progress on civil space traffic coordination system

The U.S. Space Force plans to release a high-accuracy catalog to the Department of Commerce machine-to-machine starting in spring 2024, updated every four hours indefinitely.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceNarrative PlanSep 22, 2023Office of Space Commerce touts progress on civil space traffic coordination system

The U.S. Space Force contract is a four-year Small Business Innovation Research Phase 3 award to deliver a prototype suite of software products for space domain awareness.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceTechnical ProductSep 21, 2023True Anomaly gets $17 million Space Force contract for space domain awareness software

Space Systems Command of the U.S. Space Force awarded a $17,400,000 Phase III Small Business Innovation Research contract to True Anomaly, Inc.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceOrg RelationshipSep 21, 2023True Anomaly receives million$$ USSF contract for SDA

The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command awarded a $17,400,000 Phase III Small Business Innovation Research contract to True Anomaly, Inc.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceOrg RelationshipSep 21, 2023True Anomaly lands $17 million U.S. Space Force contract for Space Domain Awareness

True Anomaly was awarded a $17,400,000 contract by the U.S. Space Force to provide software tools to better understand the behavior of objects in space and identify potential threats.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceOrg RelationshipSep 21, 2023True Anomaly gets $17 million Space Force contract for space domain awareness software

Silent Barker is a joint mission of the National Reconnaissance Office and the U.S. Space Force placed into orbit by an Atlas V on 2023-09-08 to monitor satellites in the geostationary belt.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceNarrative GeneralSep 21, 2023Space Force revising commercial space strategy to make it “actionable”

Ten satellites incorporating Terran Orbital satellite buses were deployed in low Earth orbit following a 2023-09-02 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceOrg RelationshipSep 19, 2023Satellites Equipped with Terran Orbital Buses Launched as part of SDA's Tranche 0 Mission

Terran Orbital successfully deployed 10 smallsats that incorporate the company’s buses to low Earth orbit following a 2023-09-02 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceOrg RelationshipSep 18, 2023Terran Orbital buses deploy to LEO for SDA’s Tranche 0 mission

Northrop Grumman launched a mission on 21-day notice in 2021 as an experiment in responsive launch options for the U.S. Space Force.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space ForceNarrative GeneralSep 18, 2023ABL gets contract for U.S. Space Force ‘responsive launch’ mission
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