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Space Systems Command has an annual budget of $9,000,000,000 and a workforce of about 6,300 military personnel, civilian personnel, and contractors.
The Space Force renamed the Space and Missile Systems Center to Space Systems Command in August.
The SSC's best practices are applicable to all spacecraft, regardless of physical size, orbital regime, and constellation size.
The Space Safety Coalition (SSC) has doubled the number of space companies endorsing its set of best practices since 2019, now exceeding 50 global participants.
The SSC seeks to address gaps in space governance and promote better spacecraft design, operations, and disposal practices for long-term sustainability.
The SSC's best practices incorporate existing guidance and standards published by the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS), and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Newest members endorsing the SSC include Space Micro Inc., Astro Dynamic Ltd., Slingshot Aerospace, LeoLabs Inc., and ClearSpace.
The SSC is a global ad hoc coalition dedicated to developing and maintaining aspirational space safety best practices.
The SSC and its members aim to periodically update the best practices to align with responsible space operations and the evolving understanding of the orbital debris environment.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket was scheduled to launch the Space Test Program-3 (STP-3) mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command on 2021-11-09.
Dan Oltrogge, administrator of the SSC, emphasizes the need for increased global coordination on space safety issues following the recent Russian ASAT incident.
Space Systems Command’s Rapid Prototyping Division manages the LDPE program with a matrixed LDPE-1 team composed of Los Angeles Air Force Base and Kirtland Air Force Base personnel.
In October, the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate signed a memorandum of agreement with Space Systems Command to use SSC’s established Other Transaction Agreement that provides a framework for decentralized execution of prototype awards.
USSF-67 is a classified national security mission to geostationary Earth orbit that Space Systems Command awarded to SpaceX under a $332,000,000 contract.
On 2021-09-02, U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command determined that SBIRS GEO-6 was complete.
Space Systems Command’s Cross-Mission Ground & Communications Enterprise awarded a cost-plus fixed fee contract totaling $47,500,000 to Sev1Tech LLC of Woodbridge, Virginia for meshONE-T.
The Space Enterprise Consortium was created in 2017 through the Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center, the predecessor to today’s Space Systems Command.
Space Systems Command’s Launch Enterprise Mission Manifest Office worked with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center during integration of the Landsat 9 Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Secondary Payload Adapter (L9EFS).
SSC’s Launch Enterprise awarded a FY21 prototype project for Combustion Stability Analysis and Testing to SpaceX for $14,470,000.
SSC’s Launch Enterprise awarded a FY21 prototype project for Liquid Methane Specification Development and Testing to SpaceX for $14,470,000.