VICTUS HAZE is related to VICTUS NOX and is a current Space Safari TacRS mission expected to launch later 2023.
VICTUS NOX is leading the Department of Defense’s ability to launch and establish on-orbit operations in days rather than the months and years it typically takes.
The U.S. Space Force plans to launch a responsive space mission called Victus Nox 2023 featuring a small satellite built by Millennium Space that will launch on a Firefly Aerospace rocket.
Space Force leaders will issue orders for Victus Nox to be prepared to launch within 24 hours after the 60-hour transport and integration window.
The Space Force awarded contracts in August to Millennium, a Boeing company, to produce Victus Nox and to Firefly Aerospace to launch the spacecraft.
Millennium has nearly finished building and testing the Victus Nox satellite.
The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the small-satellite mission Victus Nox in 2023 to test compressed payload deployment timelines.
Victus Nox is intended to demonstrate responsive launch and build upon the TacRS-2 mission concept that integrated and launched a payload in 21 days on a Pegasus XL in June 2021.
Space Systems Command awarded a task order to Millennium Space Systems on 2022-08-15 to deliver the space and ground systems for VICTUS NOX.
One U.S. Space Force objective supported by the VICTUS NOX OSP-4 award is supporting Department of Defense and other U.S. government agencies with flexible and innovative small launch capabilities.
The OSP-4 award for VICTUS NOX is the third awarded OSP-4 mission.
VICTUS NOX builds upon the first TacRS demonstration that launched in June 2021.
VICTUS NOX will build on the June 2021 TacRL-2 mission by leveraging competition and accelerating the responsive-launch call-up to 24 hours.
The selected launcher for TacRS-3 will deploy a space domain awareness payload called Victus Nox.
A similar Victus Nox payload was launched in June 2021 for the TacRL-2 mission on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.