National Security Space Launch (NSSL)

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United States government program space launch procurement program

National Security Space Launch (NSSL) is a U.S. Department of Defense program that procures and manages launch services to place critical national security payloads into space.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
National Security Space Launch program	6
National Security Space Launch	3
National Security Space Launch (NSSL) canonical	1
U.S. Department of Defense (via Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches)	1
U.S. Space Force launch program	1
U.S. national security space enterprise	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States government program ⓘ space launch procurement program ⓘ
abbreviation	NSSL ⓘ
administeredBy	Space Systems Command ⓘ
beneficiary	United States national security apparatus ⓘ surface form: United States national security community
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
customer	National Reconnaissance Office ⓘ United States Air Force ⓘ Department of Defense ⓘ surface form: United States Department of Defense United States Space Force ⓘ
domain	outer space ⓘ
field	national security ⓘ space launch ⓘ
focus	assured access to space ⓘ launch reliability ⓘ mission assurance ⓘ
formerlyKnownAs	Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program ⓘ
fundingSource	United States federal budget ⓘ
governingBody	Office of the Secretary of the Air Force ⓘ surface form: Office of the Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration
includesRequirement	launch site operations ⓘ orbit insertion accuracy ⓘ payload integration support ⓘ
jurisdiction	United States government ⓘ surface form: United States federal government
language	English ⓘ
launchProvider	Blue Origin ⓘ Northrop Grumman ⓘ SpaceX ⓘ United Launch Alliance ⓘ
managedBy	United States Space Force ⓘ
operator	Department of Defense ⓘ surface form: United States Department of Defense
phase	Phase 1 ⓘ Phase 2 ⓘ Phase 3 ⓘ
policyGoal	maintain at least two independent launch providers ⓘ
predecessor	Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program ⓘ
purpose	place critical national security payloads into space ⓘ procure launch services for national security payloads ⓘ
regulates	launch service performance requirements ⓘ
relatedProgram	National Security Space Architecture ⓘ
relatedTo	National Defense Strategy of the United States ⓘ surface form: United States national defense strategy
replacedProgram	Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program ⓘ
riskManagementFocus	mission success for critical payloads ⓘ
sector	military space ⓘ
supportsPayloadType	intelligence and reconnaissance satellites ⓘ military communications satellites ⓘ missile warning satellites ⓘ navigation satellites ⓘ
typeOfService	launch services procurement ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: National Security Space Launch (NSSL)
Description of subject: National Security Space Launch (NSSL) is a U.S. Department of Defense program that procures and manages launch services to place critical national security payloads into space.