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The Space Force Next-Gen OPIR program includes five satellites: two polar satellites from Northrop Grumman and three geosynchronous satellites being produced by Lockheed Martin under a $4,900,000,000 contract awarded in 2021.
Northrop Grumman won a $2,370,000,000 contract in 2020 to develop two Next-Gen OPIR polar satellites with infrared sensors to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles for the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is collaborating with NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Space Force, and U.S. Space Command to develop a lunar geodetic system.
NGA seeks to increase Space Command and Space Force representation working at the agency to build expertise in space domain awareness.
The Space Force established the Spaceport Integration Office in July to help improve coordination of spaceport activities.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched five Iridium spare satellites and 16 OneWeb satellites from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on 2023-05-20 at 6:16 a.m. PT.
The Space Force is working with Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island to support additional launches.
The deliveries of both Space Force payloads to Japan follow a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the United States and Japan in December 2020.
TransAstra Corporation was awarded a Phase One Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the United States Space Force to explore new applications for the company's Omnivore™ thruster.
Two U.S. Space Force payloads developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory will be hosted on Japan’s GEO-based Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS).
Tomorrow-R1 launched at 11:48 pm PDT on 2023-04-14 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
The U.S. Space Force delivered the second of two payloads to be hosted on Japanese satellites under an agreement signed with Japan in 2020 on 2023-05-17.
The U.S. Space Force has tasked Network Innovations U.S. Government to build an integrated satellite planning and operation system.
The deliveries of both Space Force payloads to Japan follow a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the United States and Japan in December 2020.
The U.S. Space Force aims to maintain the functionality of military satellite networks even when under attack or interference.
The two U.S. Space Force payloads were developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and will be hosted on Japan’s GEO-based Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS).
The U.S. Space Force awarded Parsons a $55,000,000 contract to develop a ground system for a network of missile-warning satellites in medium Earth orbit.
In 2019, the United States created the U.S. Space Force to ensure military satellite networks remain operational amid enemy threats.
The ground system is for a constellation of six satellites that the Space Force plans to field in medium Earth orbit in 2026 to detect and track hypersonic missiles.
When the U.S. Space Force was established in December 2019, active duty space units were moved out of the Air Force and placed in the Space Force without creating a corresponding Space National Guard component.