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Colorado Springs is a center of military space operations. It hosts Space Operations Command, NORAD and USNORTHCOM at Peterson Space Force Base, Schriever Space Force Base, Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, and U.S. Space Command, whose headquarters is relocating to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The annual Space Symposium, run by the Colorado Springs-based Space Foundation, takes place here every April.
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Peterson SFB: unified combatant command for military space operations; headquarters relocating to Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL (more than 140 headquarters staff working there as of September 2026)
Headquarters at Peterson SFB; Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station houses the alternate command center
GPS Master Control Station (2nd Space Operations Squadron), Joint Task Force-Space Defense, and satellite operations; Space Operations Command is headquartered at Peterson SFB
Industry association that hosts the annual Space Symposium
Combined space operations center for national defense
| Company | Focus Area | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| Northrop Grumman | Missile warning, space sensors | View profile |
| L3Harris Technologies | Ground systems, space domain awareness | View profile |
| Lockheed Martin | GPS III, satellite systems | View profile |
| Raytheon | Space sensors, C2 systems | View profile |
| BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems (formerly Ball Aerospace) | Instruments, spacecraft (Boulder area) | View profile |
| Sierra Space | Dream Chaser spaceplane (Louisville, CO) | View profile |
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Space/Defense Companies: 200+ (space, aerospace, cybersecurity and defense companies, El Paso County). Source: coloradospringschamberedc.com.
Key facilities include U.S. Space Command HQ, NORAD/USNORTHCOM, Schriever Space Force Base. Colorado Springs is a major hub for government space programs.
Typical roles include Space Operations, Systems Engineer, Cybersecurity, Intelligence Analyst, Program Manager. Current openings are on the SpaceNexus jobs board, synced daily from employers' own careers pages.
Space Operations Command, NORAD/USNORTHCOM, two Space Force bases (Peterson, Schriever) and Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station; U.S. Space Command HQ is relocating to Huntsville, AL. NORAD and Cheyenne Mountain: iconic space defense facilities.
Facts on this page were checked against these pages on October 10, 2026. Figures without a named source were removed.
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