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==WSF-M1==
WSF-M1 was launched in April 2024 on a [[Falcon 9 Block 5]] rocket from [[Vandenberg Space Force Base]].<ref name=2024USSF>{{cite tweet |user=USSF_SSC |number=1529969683671134209|title=SSC ordered 8 National Security Space Launch missions from our industry partners ULA & SpaceX for launch in 2024 for #SpaceForce. |date=27 May 2022 |access-date=27 May 2022}}</ref><ref name="BATC2024">{{cite web |url=https://www.ball.com/aerospace/newsroom/blogs/ball-aerospace-ships-wsf-m-satellite-for-launch |title=Ball Aerospace Ships Space Systems Command Operational Weather Satellite for Launch |date=6 February 2024 |access-date=8 February 2024}}</ref>
 
WSF-M is the first satellite in the Weather System Follow-on (WSF) program. Following the cancellation of the [[National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System]] (NPOESS), the Air Force continued the development of a weather satellite under the [[Defense Weather Satellite System]] (DWSS) program based on [[NPOESS]]. However, when that system faced delays and funding issues, the White House cancelled it and instituted the WSF program.<ref>{{cite news|title=USAF Weather Satellite Program in Disarray|url=http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/181430/us-air-force-weather-satellite-program-in-disarray.html|website=defense-aerospace.com|access-date=13 December 2017|date=23 February 2017}}</ref>
 
WSF-M is designed to mitigate three high priority U.S. DoD Space-Based Environmental Monitoring (SBEM) gaps: ocean surface vector winds, tropical cyclone intensity and LEO energetic charged particles.<ref name="Ball"/>
 
==WSF-M2==