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Space Systems Command is the second of three U.S. Space Force field commands to be established following the stand-up of Space Operations Command on 2020-10-21.
The Space and Missile Systems Center was re-designated as Space Systems Command headquarters on 2021-08-13 at 10:00 a.m. PDT.
The U.S. Space Force renamed the Space and Missile Systems Center as Space Systems Command on 2021-08-13.
The Western Development Division was renamed the Space and Missiles Systems Organization in 1967.
The Space and Missiles Systems Organization was renamed the Space and Missile Systems Center in 1992.
The U.S. Space Force is launching an industry outreach program called SpaceWERX expected to award up to $50,000,000 in contracts to small businesses and startups.
The Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Enterprise initially awarded the OSP-4 contract in October 2019 to Aevum, Firefly Black, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Rocket Lab USA, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., United Launch Alliance, VOX Space, and X-Bow Launch Systems.
The U.S. Space Force awarded an OSP-4 contract for the Tactically Responsive Launch-2 mission to Northrop Grumman.
The U.S. Space Force expects to procure approximately 20 missions under OSP-4 over the nine-year ordering period.
Astra Space’s inclusion in the OSP-4 contract preserves, stimulates, and enhances the small launch industrial base and provides the U.S. Space Force with a more diverse vendor pool.
Under a Defense Innovation Unit contract, Astra Space plans to launch a test payload for the U.S. Space Force on its next attempt to reach orbit in August.
The U.S. Space Force expects to procure approximately 20 missions with a $986,000,000 ceiling value over a nine-year ordering period.
The U.S. Space Force expects to procure approximately 20 missions from Astra and other providers under the OSP-4 contract over the nine-year ordering period.
The U.S. Space Force plans to demonstrate later 2021 two approaches to provide rides to space for small satellites and hosted payloads, including a version of a common adapter equipped with a propulsion system.
The Space and Missile Systems Center is the U.S. Space Force’s center of excellence for acquiring and developing military space systems.
The Space and Missile Systems Center uses the OSP-4 IDIQ contract to introduce speed, agility, and flexibility into the launch enterprise and to cultivate a resilient and affordable launch market.
The Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace payload is one of two being manufactured for the U.S. Space Force’s Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared geosynchronous satellites made by Lockheed Martin.
The U.S. Space Force invested nearly $1,000,000,000 in the development of Vulcan.
The U.S. Space Force awarded one of two National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contracts to United Launch Alliance in August 2020.
The U.S. Space Force on 2021-08-02 modified Raytheon’s existing $3,700,000,000 OCX contract for an equitable adjustment for COVID-19 impacts including late government-furnished equipment impacts and excusable delay overrun costs.