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United States Space Force

U.S. military service responsible for space operations, including current DMSP authority in public mission records.

The United States Space Force is a U.S. military space service and environmental-sensing mission authority.^[1] Its Earth-observation and environmental data role includes the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, which provides secure global weather and space-weather data for defence operations.^[1] DMSP capabilities include visual and infrared cloud imagery, atmospheric profiles and space-weather measurements.^[1] The service role in this area is defence weather and space-weather mission operation rather than commercial imagery sales or civilian analytics provision.^[1]

Operates

DMSP-F18Extended operations
Launched 2009-10-18 / Sun-synchronous near-polar orbit, approximately 830-850 km altitude, 04:30 descending equator crossing / 0.58 day revisit / 3000 km swath
WSF-M1Operational
Launched 2024-04-11 / Sun-synchronous orbit, 854 km altitude, 06:00 descending equator crossing time

Manufactures

WSF-M Energetic Charged Particle Sensor (ECP)Component
Operational
Operator pricingPricing not publicly listed by operator

Sources

[1]Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, U.S. Space Force fact sheetagency doc2026-06-26

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@misc{eoatlas:companies:us-space-force,
  title = {United States Space Force},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/companies/us-space-force}
}