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The Space Launch Delta 45 commander will be a one-star U.S. Space Force general officer who will also serve as the director of the eastern range, the SSC operations director, and the acquisition lead for the range of the future.
The Eastern Range lockdown window was reduced from 72–96 hours to enabling support for multiple launches in a single day because of autonomous flight safety systems.
The Eastern Range weather team is working with SpaceX and other operators planning ocean landings to incorporate climatology data along the Eastern Seaboard to identify favorable wind and sea state conditions for landings.
The OFT-2 launch will use an Atlas V rocket from the Eastern Range at Cape Canaveral.
Brig. Gen. Stephen Purdy was named commander of the U.S. Space Force’s 45th Space Wing and director of the Eastern Range at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida on 2020-11-10.
All Eastern Range users must move to autonomous flight safety systems by October 2025 or find a way to fund legacy range capabilities that remain on the range if they require them.
The 45th Space Wing operates Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and the Eastern Range on the Florida Space Coast.
The 45th Space Wing oversees preparation and launching of U.S. government and commercial satellites from Cape Canaveral and operates the Eastern Range.
The Eastern Range launched its first mission using the Autonomous Flight Safety System in 2017 when a SpaceX Falcon 9 flew a NASA cargo mission to the International Space Station.
Boosters equipped with AFSS have had a total of 38 operational launches from the Eastern Range and the Western Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
The Eastern Range planned to launch as many as 40 rockets in 2020, moving it closer to a goal of 48 launches per year.
The Eastern Range can launch every vehicle in the U.S. fleet except the Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile, which is launched from Vandenberg.
SpaceX is developing a mission to perform a polar launch from the Eastern Range, and the Eastern Range is supporting that effort.
Wayne Monteith served from August 2015 until August 2019 as commander of the 45th Space Wing, which is responsible for operations of the Eastern Range that supports launches from Cape Canaveral.
Wayne Monteith led efforts known as Drive for 48 to improve operations at the Eastern Range with the goal of supporting 48 launches a year, equivalent to one per week with two two-week maintenance periods.
Douglas Schiess was sworn in on 2018-08-23 as commander of the 45th Space Wing and director of the Eastern Range headquartered at Patrick Air Force Base.