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The Space Force’s first budget in fiscal year 2021 was $15,300,000,000.
The Space Force budget increased to $26,300,000,000 in fiscal year 2023 due to internal funds transfers from the Space Development Agency and the Air Force plus a congressional add-on.
The Space Force’s $30,000,000,000 budget request allocates $4,700,000,000 for procurement.
The Space Force reallocated the funding for the two removed GPS 3F satellites to its missile-warning constellations, which receive a large increase in the 2024 budget.
The Space Force eliminated one of three geostationary Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) satellites that it planned to buy.
The Space Force budget grew to $18,000,000,000 in fiscal year 2022.
The Space Force’s $30,000,000,000 budget request allocates $19,200,000,000 for research, development, testing, and engineering (RDT&E).
The fiscal year 2024 Department of Defense budget request includes $30,000,000,000 for the U.S. Space Force.
Space Launch Delta 45, which operates the Eastern Range, assigned three sites at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to four startups on 2023-03-07.
RS21 won U.S. Space Force Small Business Innovation Research contracts in 2021 and 2022 to develop, test, and deploy SPAICE in ground software for the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program-7 mission scheduled to launch later 2023.
Momentus completed production of Vigoride-6 and shipped it on 2023-03-08 to Vandenberg Space Force Base for integration on the SpaceX Transporter-7 dedicated rideshare mission scheduled for launch in April.
SpaceX deployed 40 OneWeb satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during the OneWeb 17 launch.
SpaceX launched the OneWeb 17 mission to low Earth orbit on 2023-03-09 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The PTES demonstration validated the design for the U.S. Space Force’s ground-based anti-jamming satellite communications (SATCOM) capability.
The U.S. Space Force plans to augment geostationary systems with distributed networks of satellites in different orbits to increase resilience and complicate adversary targeting.
Astroscale is part of a team awarded a $1,700,000 contract by the U.S. Space Force under the Orbital Prime program.
The U.S. Space Force is contributing $24,000,000 to help develop Neutron’s upper stage.
Under a separate Space Force contract, Boeing is developing a jam-resistant satellite communications payload called the Protected Tactical Satcom Prototype (PTS-P) expected to launch in 2024 for an on-orbit demonstration.
Launching Neutron from Wallops will allow the vehicle to compete for NSSL missions to sun-synchronous orbits and mid-inclination orbits typically launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
A Space Force initiative aims to use commercial space transportation systems and on-orbit logistics to support military operations, including rockets to deliver cargo, space tugs to deliver satellites to nontraditional orbits, and on-orbit tankers to refuel satellites.