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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.
High-resolution thermal infrared will provide a new commercial remote sensing solution for the U.S. Space Force.
The Department of the Air Force expects that building smaller systems, acquiring smaller ground and software increments, using existing technologies, and shortening contract timelines will enable the Space Force to provide mission capabilities faster to warfighters.
The LM 400 is under several contracts and was named as the satellite bus supporting the U.S. Space Force’s planned Missile Track Custody program in Medium Earth Orbit.
Astra Space was awarded a launch task order for Rocket 4 through the United States Space Force’s Orbital Services Program (OSP)-4 contract for the STP-S29B mission.
CisLunar Industries intends to use recycled-metal propellant for the Neumann Drive to support debris retrieval operations and the Space Force SAML (Space Access, Mobility, and Logistics) mission.
SpaceX will lease Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6) at Vandenberg Space Force Base to launch Falcon rockets.
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 to enable enhanced satellite mobility.
The Space Force requested funding to buy commercial space situational awareness data for the first time in its budget requests for fiscal years 2022 and 2023.
Space Systems Command is the U.S. Space Force field command responsible for acquiring and delivering resilient warfighting capabilities.
A five-year Commercial Satellite Communications (COMSATCOM) Transponded Capacity (CTC) contract worth $27,540,000 was awarded to SES Space & Defense by the U.S. Space Force’s Commercial SATCOM Communication Office (CSCO) through the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO).
The $11,500,000 task order to Astra was awarded under the U.S. Space Force’s Orbital Services Program OSP-4 as recorded by Space Systems Command on 2023-04-21.
The U.S. Space Force plans to start replacing decades-old parabolic satellite dishes with electronic phased array antennas developed by BlueHalo in 2025.
The U.S. Space Force is interested in partnering with allies that are investing in sovereign national satcom systems, including Australia and the United Kingdom.
The U.S. Space Force allocated $59,000,000 in its 2024 budget to buy satellite communications services from SES’ O3b mPower constellation in medium Earth orbit.
Astra Space, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASTR) was awarded a launch task order for Rocket 4 through the United States Space Force’s Orbital Services Program (OSP)-4 contract.
Satellogic Inc. deployed four additional satellites to orbit following SpaceX’s Transporter-7 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
Space Force officials rated the recent L3Harris communications upgrade milestone at a 100 percent success rate.
The U.S. Space Force awarded a $145,000,000 contract for option year four of the MOSSAIC program.
The Space Force expects to start awarding NSSL Phase 3 contracts to launch providers in 2025 for missions that would start launching in 2027.