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SpaceX is conducting a $2,000,000 six-month study contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center to explore providing weather data to the U.S. military.
SpaceX received the weather study contract in July from the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Enterprise Consortium.
Slingshot Aerospace won a U.S. Space Force contract on 2020-10-08 to develop an immersive simulation of the orbital environment.
Slingshot Aerospace received a $1,000,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop the simulation.
The Space Force intends for the Space Systems Command to work together with existing organizations including the Space and Missile Systems Center, the Space Development Agency, and the Space Rapid Capabilities Office.
The U.S. Space Force was established in December 2019.
Boeing received a $298,000,000 contract to build a satellite payload prototype and develop a secure communications architecture for the U.S. Space Force’s Evolved Strategic SATCOM program.
The Space and Missile Systems Center’s satellite communications procurement office is changing procurement approaches to buy from emerging low-Earth-orbit broadband providers.
The AFRL-funded navigation satellite NTS-3 is an experimental satellite that could transition to production using the same contract if the Space and Missile Systems Center chooses to buy it.
AFRL and the Space and Missile Systems Center developed technical standards for optical communications equipment to be used to connect satellites in space.
Companies selected by the Space Enterprise Consortium to build prototypes have an inside track to production if the Space and Missile Systems Center decides to procure the system in quantities.
The U.S. Space Force operates about 77 satellites.
The Space and Missile Systems Center planned to start flying payloads on previously flown Falcon 9 boosters in Phase 2 but decided to begin doing so early under the current GPS contract.
SpaceX will launch two GPS satellites next year using previously flown Falcon 9 boosters under an agreement with the Space and Missile Systems Center.
The Space and Missile Systems Center delayed the fifth GPS 3 launch from January to July 2021 to allow time for design validation and to understand how SpaceX refurbishes previously flown hardware.
The two classified programs that will test digital engineering of satellites are managed by the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center.
Administrator Jim Bridenstine and U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond discussed the memorandum of understanding on 2020-09-22 in a live virtual event hosted by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
U.S. Air Force Space Command was disestablished when the U.S. Space Force was created on 2019-12-20.
A House amendment to the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act requires the U.S. Space Force to use the U.S. Navy’s rank structure.
L3Harris Technologies received a $119,100,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center on 2020-09-21 to upgrade and expand the Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System.