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Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman requested $340,000,000 in the Space Force’s 2024 budget for an operational testing and training infrastructure.
SpaceX is projected to use a Falcon Heavy to launch the U.S. Space Force’s USSF-52 mission in July 2023.
With final assembly, integration, and test complete, the fully integrated Varda spacecraft has been shipped to Vandenberg Space Force Base for launch on a commercial rideshare mission scheduled no earlier than 2023-06-08.
Jim Cooper worked with Representative Mike Rogers in 2017 on a proposal to establish a space corps under the U.S. Department of the Air Force that passed the House and preceded the law creating the U.S. Space Force.
The fully integrated Varda spacecraft has been shipped to Vandenberg Space Force Base for launch on a commercial rideshare mission scheduled for no earlier than 2023-06-08.
The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument launched on 2023-04-07 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Landsat 9 was launched in September 2021 on an Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
STEP 2.0 aims to advance the United States Space Force’s Science and Technology enterprise by procuring commercially developed spacecraft with demonstrated flight heritage to host DoD-sponsored payloads over the next 10 years.
Northrop Grumman manufactures the Long Duration Propulsive ESPA (LDPE) bus, which the Space Force used to deploy experiments.
The STP program uses the Space Force small launch program that awards STP missions under a multi-vendor contract known as OSP-4.
Mike Tierney estimates spending on commercial space services is only a small fraction of the Space Force’s $30,000,000,000 budget.
Industry representatives visited Space Systems Command’s exhibit booth at Space Tech Expo USA 2023 to explore how their technologies could support United States Space Force and Space Systems Command systems and architecture integration and resilience goals.
The Pentagon’s funding proposal for fiscal year 2024 seeks $30,000,000,000 for the U.S. Space Force.
The Space Force plans to select two providers to fly as many as 40 missions projected for Lane 2.
Astroscale U.S., CisLunar Industries, and Colorado State University received a $1,700,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop a circular propulsion ecosystem based on recycling metal in space.
The U.S. Space Force released a draft solicitation for National Security Space Launch Phase 3 launch contracts to be awarded in 2025.
Two additional O3b mPOWER medium Earth orbit satellites were launched for SES on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States at 6:12 p.m. local time on 2023-04-28.
NTS-3 is scheduled to launch as a 1,250-kilogram secondary payload on USSF-106, a national security space mission assigned to United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket.
SpaceX launched a second pair of O3b mPower satellites for SES on 2023-04-28, lifting off at 6:12 p.m. Eastern on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The USSF-106 mission was projected to launch in late 2023 but is likely to slip to 2024 due to a Centaur upper stage anomaly that remains under investigation.