All verified mentions of this organization in source documents.
The winners and two other finalists of SSC’s 2nd annual Fight Tonight innovation competition were announced on 2023-11-17 at the Space Force Ball at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.
SSC allocated up to $8,000,000 in funding to be provided toward the winning Fight Tonight idea.
Space Systems Command manages a $15,000,000,000 space acquisition budget for the Department of Defense.
The Space Systems Command started the FORGE program in 2019 to create an open architecture for missile-warning ground systems to replace the current proprietary ground stations developed and operated by Lockheed Martin.
Space Systems Command opened a Tools, Applications and Processing Lab in Boulder in 2021 focused on analysis of data from infrared sensor missile-warning satellites.
The Space Systems Command is developing a blueprint for a Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve.
In June of 2023, iRocket signed a TACFI contract with the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) to further develop its rocket engine.
U.S. Space Force Col. Richard Kniseley, head of Space Systems Command’s Commercial Space Office (COMSO), will deliver the keynote at the SpaceNews 2023 Icon Awards on 2023-12-05 in Washington.
Space Systems Command assigned 21 national security launch missions to United Launch Alliance and SpaceX under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract the companies won in 2020.
The Space Systems Command assigned 21 launch missions to United Launch Alliance and SpaceX on 2024-10-31 as part of the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract.
The United States Space Force Space Systems Command Commercial Satellite Communications Office is seeking sources capable of supporting a Department of Defense effort to launch and maintain communications satellites with greater maneuverability and smaller size than traditional geostationary satellites.
The SSC Commercial Satellite Communications Office is seeking information from potential sources to provide commercially offered satellite communication services supported by GEO satellites using a constellation of small satellites.
Space Systems Command has established partnerships with 28 different countries, the majority of which were formed within the last 18 months.
Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, commander of Space Systems Command, stated on 2023-10-18 that funding for the CASR program will be requested in the 2025 and 2026 budgets.
SSC provides LEOP support connectivity services and routine TT&C support to the Kingdom of Thailand’s national space agency GISTDA for THEOS-2.
SSC will provide routine operations support, full backup, and emergency TT&C services to the THEOS-2 Control Center at GISTDA in Si Racha, Thailand after LEOP.
SSC and GISTDA have been working together since the launch of THEOS-1 in 2008.
U.S. Space Force Colonel Richard Kniseley, head of Space Systems Command’s Commercial Space Office (COMSO), will deliver the keynote address at the SpaceNews 2023 Icon Awards on 2023-12-05 in Washington, D.C.
SSC supported the launch of Thailand’s high-resolution Earth observation optical satellite THEOS-2.
SSC is the key commercial ground station service provider for Airbus-built satellite mission THEOS-2.