A military satellite waiting to launch with ULA will now fly with SpaceX

Space Force launches new effort to share unclassified threat data with commercial industry

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Space Force’s acquisition arm is now able to share unclassified information about on-orbit threats with hundreds of commercial space companies under a new program called “Orbital Watch,” the service announced Tuesday. Space Systems Command’s Front Door — which facilitates the Space Force’s collaboration with commercial industry — launched the Orbital Watch effort March 21 by releasing “an unclassified threat fact sh…

Amazon rocket launch, ULA Atlas V liftoff in Florida: Visibility map shows these cities and states

What time is liftoff? ULA's Atlas V should be visible outside of Florida pending weather. Did your city, state make the rocket launch visibility map?

SpaceX takes over Space Force satellite mission from ULA

SpaceX will take over a U.S. Space Force launch mission for a GPS satellite from United Launch Alliance (ULA). The GPS III lineup boosts accuracy, anti-jamming, and syncing with global navigation systems. On April 7, the Space Systems Command announced that the GPS III SV-08 satellite, the eighth in its series, will lift off no earlier than late May on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The shift aims to…

Space Force Went Fast for Last GPS Launch. Now It Plans to Go Faster

The Space Force is switching up rockets for its next GPS mission—and trying to go faster than ever in preparing the satellite for launch.  Space Systems Command announced April 7 that GPS III Space Vehicle-08 will now launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Base, Fla., on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than the end of May. The satellite had previously been assigned to a rocket from United Launch Alliance.  The goal is to take the satellite…

U.S. Space Force Field Commands Announce Accelerated GPS III Mission, Launch Vehicle Trade - Inside GNSS - Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design

U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) and Space Operations Command (SpOC) announced the expected launch of the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) GPS III-7 mission, Space Vehicle 08 (SV-08), with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., no earlier than the end of May 2025. Following the successful Rapid Response Trailblazer launch in December 2024, the two field commands are e…

SpaceX to launch second accelerated GPS 3 satellite mission in late May – Spaceflight Now

Seen here prior to being sealed in its shipping container at Lockheed Martin’s Littleton, Colorado facility, SV08 will join the U.S. Space Force’s operational GPS constellation in orbit. Image: Lockheed Martin. Following the successful accelerated launch of a Global Positioning System on a Falcon 9 rocket in mid-December, the U.S. Space Force, Lockheed Martin and SpaceX are preparing to launch another GPS 3 satellite on a fast tracked basis. The…