National Security Space Launch (NSSL)

National Security Space Launch is the Space Force program that buys the launch services which put national security satellites into orbit, and it is the largest single procurement activity in the Space Force. Its Phase 3 strategy uses two lanes: commercial-like Lane 1 missions and Lane 2 contracts for the most demanding payloads.

Obligations are signed USAspending prime-contract actions coded to this program, FY2008 to date, credited to the company that received each action. Obligations are money committed, not company revenue.

• Geosynchronous High-Resolution Optical Space-Based Tactical Reconnaissance (GHOST-R)
• National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1
• Nite-Star
• Space-Based Interceptor (SBI)
• Space Data Network Backbone (SDN-B)