Nov. 7, 2024

Operation Olympic Defender: Allied Space Operations Centers prioritize efforts for a shared Space Common Operational Picture

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. — Space Delta 5 and the Combined Space Operations Center (CSpOC) hosted a 3-day Operation Olympic Defender Common Operational Picture (COP) working group, consisting of space representatives from the Australian Space Operations Centre, Canadian Space Operations Centre and United Kingdom National Space Operations Centre. Specialists from USSF Space Operations Command, headquarters USSPACECOM and MITRE also supported this founding event.

Nov. 6, 2024

CIC expands to include SDA and ISR capabilities

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. — Today during a Mitchell Institute fireside chat Lt. Gen. Douglas A. Schiess, U.S. Space Forces – Space commander and Combined Joint Force Space Component commander, announced the expansion of the S4S Commercial Integration Cell (CIC) by five members, with two additional companies in the process of joining.

Nov. 5, 2024

S4S hosts Strategic Forces Subcommittee from HASC

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. — U.S. Space Forces - Space hosted Professional Staff Members Peter Schirtzinger, Whitney Verrett and Maria Vastola from the House Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Strategic Forces during their visit to Vandenberg Space Forces Base, Nov. 2, 2024. Welcomed by U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Frank A. Kincaid, S4S Deputy Commander, the three HASC members received an in-depth Joint Space Operations Plan (JSOP) briefing and Combined Space Operations Center (CSpOC) tour to better understand S4S's role when assessing risks and threats to the space mission, as it is the Subcommittee's jurisdiction over DoD programs such as space systems and services of the military departments.

Oct. 29, 2024

S4S Hosts Senate Armed Services Committee members at NSDC

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess, U.S. Space Forces – Space (S4S) Commander and Combined Joint Force Space Component Commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Tina Timmerman, S4S Command Senior Enlisted Leader, hosted Dr. Jon Epstein, Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) professional staff member (PSM), and Ms. Kristina Belcourt, SASC PSM, at the National Space Defense Center (NSDC), Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, Oct. 21, 2024. While visiting the NSDC, they attended a classified brief to discuss joint space operations planning and better understand how S4S plans to protect the joint warfighter from space enabled attack and defend our space assets and those of our allies. (U.S. Space Force photo by Dalton Prejeant)

Oct. 25, 2024

Celebrating 20 Years of Joint Navigation Warfare Center's Service to National Defense

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — The Joint Navigation Warfare Center celebrated its 20th anniversary with a ceremony that brought together community leaders, congressional leaders, and coalition partners, here, Oct. 23, 2024.

Oct. 25, 2024

S4S ensures safety of spaceflight, return of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. — U.S. Space Forces – Space (S4S) supports NASA human space flight by planning, integrating, executing, and assessing space operations, providing continuous space situational awareness monitoring for the International Space Station and visiting spacecraft. The ability to detect, track, and identify space objects in near real-time provides unique space domain awareness that ensures safety of humans in space and understanding for the United States Space Command Area of Operations. Additionally, S4S provides conjunction analysis and potential collision notifications to NASA and other satellite owner-operators.

Oct. 21, 2024

STAFDEL Vogt visits NSDC

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — Camilla Vogt, left, National Security Advisor to Senator Hickenlooper (D-CO) and U.S. Space Force Col. Stephen Lyon, right, National Space Defense Center director and Space Delta 15 commander, pose for a photo during a visit to the NSDC at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo., Oct. 17, 2024. Vogt received a NSDC mission brief and tour of the operations floor, demonstrating its connection to U.S. Space Forces-Space, U.S. Space Force, and U.S. Space Command to conduct assured global space effects. Vogt visited multiple organizations across the Front Range and gained a deeper understanding of Colorado-based space equities. (U.S. Space Force photo by Dalton Prejeant)

Oct. 10, 2024

Air Marshal Paul Godfrey visits NSDC, DEL 15

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — National Space Defense Center and Space Delta 15 leaders host Air Marshal Paul Godfrey, center, U.S. Space Force Assistant Chief of Space Operations for Future Concepts and Partnerships, during a tour of the NSDC’s Senior Master Sergeant Harold Robert Mosley II operations floor at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo., Oct. 8, 2024. Godfrey is the first Ally to be photographed on the NSDC’s operations floor. Having a foreign officer serve in a position at this level on a service staff is unprecedented and exemplifies commitment to integrating with Allies and partnering to win. (U.S. Space Force photo by Bridget Bonnette)

Oct. 10, 2024

JCO TacSRT support to Hurricane Helene recovery efforts

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. — In support of Hurricane Helene relief effort, the Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Tracking team assigned to U.S. Space Forces – Space Joint Commercial Operations cell, provided imagery analysis to U.S. Northern Command Oct. 3-5, 2024, of road closures, road conditions, and bridges on ground routes between Knoxville, Tennessee, and Asheville, North Carolina.

Oct. 9, 2024

NSDC hosts CORONA Space Immersion Day participants

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — Honorable Peter J. Beshar, General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Air Force, listens to U.S. Space Force Col. Stephen Lyon, National Space Defense Center Director and Space Delta 15 Commander, during a CORONA Space Immersion Day at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo., Oct. 4, 2024. CORONA participants toured the base and interacted directly with U.S. Space Force units to showcase specific USSF mission areas, to include the NSDC. The NSDC, with support from Space Delta 15, is one of two subordinate command and control commands executing operations under the U.S. Space Forces-Space commander’s Combined Joint Force Space Component Commander authorities. The S4S mission is to plan, integrate, conduct, and assess global space operations to deliver combat relevant space effects, in, from, and to space for combatant commanders, coalition partners, the joint force, and the nation. (U.S. Space Force photo by Dalton Prejeant)