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Orbit Fab has developed the only refueling valve approved by the US Space Force.
Vantor won a contract from the U.S. Space Force to support its Joint Commercial Operations program.
The U.S. Space Force requires Lane 1 bidders to be ready for a first launch by December 2025.
The US Space Force is developing a space data network designed as an integrated mesh operating across all orbits to increase capacity and reduce the need to bring all data to the ground.
In 2020, the U.S. Space Force selected General Atomics, Orion Space Solutions, and Raytheon Technologies to design a prototype Electro-Optical Weather System satellite.
On 2024-04-11, Rocket Lab and True Anomaly secured contracts to launch a tactically responsive space mission for the U.S. Space Force.
The U.S. Space Force received $29,000,000,000 in funding for fiscal year 2024 as part of a multi-agency spending package passed by Congress on 2024-03-21.
Ground-based sensors are limited by distance and weather, leading the Space Force and the intelligence community to develop new surveillance satellites for GEO monitoring.
A small satellite mission funded by the U.S. Space Force to provide weather data from low Earth orbit launched to orbit on 2024-03-04.
The Space Force launched the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on a Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in December 2023.
Three months before the 2023-12-22 mission, Alpha successfully launched the Victus Nox responsive space demonstration for the U.S. Space Force.
Orbit Fab won a contract to provide hydrazine for the U.S. Space Force Tetra-5 spacecraft.
The mission designated Cert-1 is Vulcan’s first launch and the first of two certification flights ULA must perform to gain U.S. Space Force approval to launch national security payloads.
A Falcon Heavy launch of the U.S. Space Force X-37B spaceplane from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center was scrubbed on 2023-12-11 because of a ground equipment issue and was delayed to no earlier than 2023-12-28 reportedly because of issues with the rocket.
Falcon Heavy had been scheduled to launch the U.S. Space Force’s robotic X-37B space plane from Florida on Monday night, 2023-12-11.
Firefly’s Alpha rocket most recently launched on 2023-09-14 on the Victus Nox mission for the U.S. Space Force.
The Space Force plans to launch the first of two Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) satellites in 2024.
Saber Astronautics received a $1,200,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop new maneuver planning capabilities.
Saber Astronautics received a $1,200,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force under a U.S. Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II program to develop new maneuver planning capabilities.
X-37B Mission 7 aims to expand the United States Space Force’s knowledge of the space environment through experimentation.