Honestly, the summary on Wikipedia is pretty good. Distilling it down, the USSF launches and operates satellites, operates ground stations for monitoring space, and almost certainly engages in...
Honestly, the summary on Wikipedia is pretty good. Distilling it down, the USSF launches and operates satellites, operates ground stations for monitoring space, and almost certainly engages in classified missions/functions that relate to space (e.g., anti-satellite operations against China and Russia). They are still a young organization, and space is still a new frontier, so in the long term, new missions (particularly crewed ones) are likely to pop up.
Mirror, for those hit by the paywall:
https://archive.is/OIB0V
Count down the days until they get reabsorbed into the Air Force
It'll be the same number of days it took the Air Force to be reabsorbed back into the US Army.
I wish there was a TLDR version of this. Surely they can summarize what they do in a couple of sentences.
Honestly, the summary on Wikipedia is pretty good. Distilling it down, the USSF launches and operates satellites, operates ground stations for monitoring space, and almost certainly engages in classified missions/functions that relate to space (e.g., anti-satellite operations against China and Russia). They are still a young organization, and space is still a new frontier, so in the long term, new missions (particularly crewed ones) are likely to pop up.