U.S. SPACE FORCE - What They Actually Do

The U.S. Space Force is responsible for organizing, training, and equipping guardians to conduct global space operations that enhance the way the joint and coalition forces fight, while offering decision-makers military options to achieve national objectives. They do this through various missions, including space superiority, global mission operations, and assured space access.
Key responsibilities and functions of the U.S. Space Force include:

Space Superiority:
Defending against space and counter-space threats, including orbital warfare, electromagnetic warfare, and space battle management.

Global Mission Operations:
Integrating joint functions across all domains on a global scale, such as missile warning, satellite communications, and positioning, navigation, and timing.
Assured Space Access:
Deploying and sustaining equipment in space, including launch, range control, cyber, and space domain awareness.
Protecting U.S. interests in space:
This includes ensuring the freedom of operation in space, detering aggression in space, and conducting space operations.
Supporting the military:
The Space Force provides essential space capabilities that support the air, land, and sea military branches.
Operating and maintaining critical systems:
This includes GPS, satellite communications, and missile warning systems, among others.
Managing space launch operations:
The Space Force manages launch operations at the East and West Coast Space Launch Deltas, providing services, facilities, and range safety control for DOD, NASA, and commercial space launches.
Tracking space debris and satellites:
The Space Force maintains a global network of space surveillance sensors to track satellites and space debris, providing vital information to the nation and the world.

In essence, the Space Force's mission is to secure national interests in, from, and to space, ensuring a secure, stable, and accessible space domain for military and civilian purposes.

The U.S. Space Force was established on Dec. 20, 2019, creating the first new branch of the armed services since 1947. The establishment of the USSF resulted from widespread recognition that space is a national security imperative. When combined with the growing threat posed by strategic competitors in space, it became clear that there was a need for a military service focused solely on pursuing superiority in the space domain.

While the Space Force is the newest service, the Department of Defense has been working in the space domain since the beginning of space exploration. The Space Force consolidates satellite acquisition, budget and workforce from across more than 60 different organizations into a unified, efficient, effective service for space operations.

Investments in space capabilities have increased the effectiveness of operations in every other domain. The U.S. military is faster, better connected, more informed, more precise and more lethal because of its ability to harness space effectively. The