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On 2022-04-22, the U.S. Space Force enabled the Space Fence tracking radar to feed data directly into the Unified Data Library.
The U.S. Space Force plans to conduct a responsive space demonstration in 2023 that challenges private launch companies to deploy satellites on short notice.
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.
A U.S. Space Force satellite called Monolith launched from Rocket Lab’s New Zealand site in July 2021 instead of from Wallops.
The U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Space Force, in collaboration with the security research community, opened registration on 2022-04-08 for the qualification round of the third annual Space Security Challenge: Hack-A-Sat satellite hacking competition.
Northrop Grumman has more than 2,200 employees across Colorado supporting customers that include the U.S. Space Force, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Missile Defense Agency, and the intelligence community.
NASA signed an agreement with the U.S. Space Force on 2022-04-07 to release data from military satellites on bolides.
The U.S. Space Force plans a cooperative role with NASA and other agencies on planetary defense through a 2018 strategy and action plan.
New orbital data from the U.S. Space Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron in late March 2022 showed Shiyan-10 in an approximately 1,853 by 38,878 km orbit with a 63.6-degree inclination.
Winkler oversaw U.S. Space Force and Space Command activities, manned and unmanned aviation, and hypersonic/counter-hypersonic weapons development within the Pentagon.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Astranis a nearly $1,000,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 contract in 2020 for its software-defined radio technology.
The U.S. Space Force plans in 2025 to launch three small satellites to geostationary orbit that will attempt to dock with a propellant tanker for in-space refueling.
The U.S. Space Force established SpaceWERX in 2020 to speed adoption of commercial technology for government missions.
The Department of the Air Force submitted a proposal to Congress on 2022-04-01 to establish a regular active-duty U.S. Space Force with full-time and part-time members instead of a dedicated reserve force.
The U.S. Space Force requested an additional $200,000,000 in fiscal year 2023 to launch satellites for the Space Development Agency’s missile-tracking constellation.
NTS-3 is projected to launch on the USSF-106 mission planned by the U.S. Space Force.
The U.S. Space Force is working with allies to establish international norms of behavior for space activity and to share a common operating picture of activity occurring in space.
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) was awarded $117,000,000 for option-year three of a U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command contract to maintain and modernize infrastructure to track objects in space.
The U.S. Space Force cannot continue acquiring satellites and deploying constellations the same way it has in the past due to increased complexities in the current space environment.
The U.S. Space Force is standing up a new office to buy nontraditional commercial space services and is developing contracting mechanisms for services such as space domain awareness.