We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
🇺🇸 Happy
#IndependenceDay
! 🇺🇸
Launching faster! The U.S.
#SpaceForce
has selected Blue Origin and Stoke Space Technologies Inc. to enable launches to occur within just 12-24 months from task award.
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From making a purchase at the grocery store to warfighter communications overseas, the fabric of our daily life relies on space. Our Nation's space systems make it possible.
#SpaceForce
protects them.
#ProudToBeSSC
#SpaceForce
’s Space Systems Command proudly continues work started by the Western Development Division, founded 70 years ago today, to protect and defend our Nation’s security through space-enabled capabilities. Today & every day, we are Proud to be SSC.
Now in it's 5th year,
#SpaceForce
will continue to evolve, grow, and change as leadership identifies opportunities. At the same time, we're continually pursuing
#reoptimization
in an era of Great Power Competition. Read more:
How do you turn shower curtains and aluminum foil into a parade-inspired replica of a GPS satellite? With lots of creativity and teamwork to give the U.S.
#SpaceForce
it's due as the honored service in the Torrance Armed Forces Day Parade.
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U.S.
#SpaceForce
Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant recently highlighted Space Systems Command’s focus on acquiring and delivering resilient war fighting capabilities to protect the Nation’s strategic advantage in, from, and to space. Read more:
Blinky Lights, Layer 8, and Staff Retention: Space Systems Command’s Chief Information Officer reflects on cybersecurity challenges and opportunities in an era of Great Power Competition in this month’s Milsat Magazine:
June 19, 1865 is the date that marked the true end of slavery.
#Juneteenth
isn't just a celebration of freedom, it's a celebration of the strength and resilience of the African American community. As a country it is our responsibility to ensure an equal society for all.
Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S. and the beginning of the fulfillment of America’s promise of life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness for all. The Juneteenth National Independence Day Act established the national holiday in 2021. Happy
#Juneteenth
The
#SpaceForce
has awarded four contracts to Blue Origin, CACI International Inc., General Atomics, & Viasat to develop space laser communication terminal prototypes as the first of 3 phases Space Systems Command's Enterprise Space Terminal program. More:
Recently
#SpaceForce
representatives from
#SpaceSystemsCommand
visited with students at the University of California San Diego, where Denese Cordaro and USSF Lt. Col. Kevin Champaigne provided an unclassified briefing on emerging space threats and Great Power Competition.
The United States Space Force was recognized as the ‘honored service’ at the 62nd annual Armed Forces Day Parade May 18 in Torrance, California, one of the largest and longest running celebrations of its type in the United States.
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During the first facilitated ‘Acquisition Day on the Hill,’ U.S. Space Force Guardians and Space Systems Command personnel shared with Congressional Staffers and leaders the critical importance space acquisition brings to national security.
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👨🏽🚀
#MissionAccomplished
👨🏽🚀
The ULA Atlas V rocket carrying Boeing's CST-100
#Starliner
spacecraft and NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams marked the first crewed launch at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in 56 years! 🚀
@USSF_SSC
@SpaceForceDoD