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The Space Development Agency plans to launch the T1DES space vehicles with the Tranche 1 Tracking space vehicles on four launches procured through the U.S. Space Force’s National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract.
The U.S. Space Force is building a gateway site at Clear Space Force Station, Alaska to operate two new polar communications payloads scheduled to launch in 2023 on a Space Norway mission.
The U.S. Space Force awarded a $44,500,000 contract for the Tetra-5 mission.
The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command plans to develop payloads rather than build complete satellites, with those payloads to be integrated by the Space Force or other organizations onto military or commercial satellite buses.
B. Chance Saltzman served most of his military career in the U.S. Air Force and commanded coalition air forces in the Middle East before transferring to the U.S. Space Force in 2020.
The U.S. Space Force ordered three LDPE satellites, the first of which launched in December, with two more scheduled to launch on upcoming national security space missions.
The STP-S28 contract was awarded to Virgin Orbit National Systems in April 2020 by the United States Space Force as a three-launch mission, with STP-S28A as the first launch.
USSF-124 is a U.S. Space Force and Missile Defense Agency mission that will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Eastern Range into low Earth orbit.
U.S. Space Force units will begin operating the long-range discrimination radar at Clear Space Force Station in 2023.
On 2021-09-30 the U.S. Space Force awarded Slingshot Aerospace a $2,000,000 contract to develop a prototype analytics tool that uses space-based location data from proliferated Low Earth Orbit constellations to identify potential sources of electronic ground interference.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Slingshot Aerospace a $2,000,000 contract on 2021-09-30 to develop a prototype analytics tool that uses space-based location data from proliferated low Earth orbit constellations to identify potential sources of electronic ground interference.
Most U.S. Space Force sensors are designed to detect and track satellites in geosynchronous orbit at distances of 36,0 m or closer.
The U.S. Space Force’s Wide Field of View spacecraft arrived safely at the launch processing facility in Florida on 2022-02-02.
Astra planned to launch its first demo mission from LC-46 at Cape Canaveral, a pad licensed by the Space Force from Space Florida.
The U.S. Space Force seeks to partner with private companies to perform orbital debris removal and in-space servicing.
A Space Force forecast projected Eastern Range launches to increase from 57 in 2022 to 119 in 2027, driven almost entirely by commercial activity.
Astra Space, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTR) completed its first commercial orbital launch for the United States Space Force on 2021-11-19 PST.
Astra Space, Inc. completed its first commercial orbital launch for the United States Space Force on 2021-11-19, PST.
Two U.S. Space Force missions originally scheduled to launch on Falcon Heavy in 2021 were delayed to 2022.
Slingshot Aerospace initially secured a contract to develop Slingshot Laboratory for the U.S. Space Force and delivered an initial version in July 2021.