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The $15,400,000,000 Space Force request provides $900,000,000 more than what Congress appropriated the previous year for Air Force space operations and investments.
The Space Force was established on 2019-12-20 as a separate branch of the armed forces under the Department of the Air Force.
The Trump administration transferred money from existing Air Force space programs to fund the Space Force 2021 request rather than adding $15,400,000,000 in new Pentagon funds.
The Air Force awarded Launch Service Agreement contracts to three other companies but not to SpaceX, and SpaceX’s challenge to that outcome remains pending.
Relativity Space expects to perform a first launch of the Terran 1 rocket in 2021 from a site it will develop at Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy manifest included two classified U.S. Air Force missions scheduled for late 2020 and early 2021 and a ViaSat-3 broadband communications satellite for Viasat in mid-2021.
More than 60 members of the U.S. Air Force Academy class of 2020 who are headed to the U.S. Space Force have received initial assignments as space operations officers.
In October 2018, the U.S. Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $792,000,000 Launch Services Agreement to complete detailed design and verification of the OmegA space launch vehicle and launch sites.
The process by which U.S. Air Force Academy cadets decide whether to join the U.S. Air Force or the U.S. Space Force is the same as the process used by U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen deciding between the Navy and the Marine Corps.
Immediately after President Trump signed the 2020 NDAA on 2019-12-20, Air Force Space Command was renamed U.S. Space Force.
A previous Falcon 9 launched the SAOCOM 1A satellite into polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in October 2018.
Patrick Space Force Base and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station will continue to be maintained and supported by the U.S. Air Force after renaming.
The Air Force plans to request an additional $12,000,000,000 for the GBSD program between 2022 and 2025.
Northrop Grumman is investing in people and facilities to meet the Air Force schedule of fielding GBSD in 2029.
Boeing’s April 2019 contract to build an eleventh Wideband Global Communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force was a sole-source award funded by a congressional earmark.
Air Force Space Command was renamed U.S. Space Force on 2019-12-20.
Blue Origin is completing construction of Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to host New Glenn launches.
Northrop Grumman used technicians who work on other vehicles at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to accelerate preparations for the NG-13 launch.
Under a direct contract with the Royal Thai Air Force, ISISPACE designed, built, and tested the NAPA-1 satellite platform and ground segment.
On 2020-02-12, Sigmatech won a five-year $74,000,000 contract to provide expert support staff to the office of the assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration.