All verified mentions of this organization in source documents.
The NSSL program is run by the U.S. Air Force and receives additional oversight from the Pentagon.
The Air Force raised the ceiling for Space Enterprise Consortium Other Transaction Authority contracts to $500,000,000.
The Air Force selected Advanced Technology International of Charleston, South Carolina in November 2017 to manage the Space Enterprise Consortium.
The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded Vector a $3,400,000 contract on 2019-08-07 for the Agile Small Launch Operational Normalizer (ASLON) 45 mission.
The Delta 4 Medium carried its GPS-3 payload to a transfer orbit from which the satellite will use onboard propulsion to join the Air Force’s other 31 GPS satellites in a 20,200-kilometer medium Earth orbit.
After opening subsequent GPS-3 satellites to competition, the Air Force selected Lockheed Martin again in 2018 for up to 22 follow-on satellites valued at $7,200,000,000 after Boeing and Northrop Grumman declined to bid.
The U.S. Air Force selected Lockheed Martin in 2008 to build the first 10 GPS-3 satellites.
United Launch Alliance completed the final launch of a Delta 4 Medium on 2019-08-22, sending a GPS-3 satellite into medium Earth orbit for the U.S. Air Force.
The GPS-3 satellite launched on ULA’s final Delta 4 Medium was the U.S. Air Force’s second GPS-3 spacecraft.
The National Reconnaissance Office’s NROL-82 mission is planned to launch on a Delta 4 Heavy from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California in 2020.
All future Delta 4 Heavy missions will support United States Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office customers.
United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4 Medium has launched 28 times and its 29th and final mission will carry the Air Force’s second GPS-3 satellite on 2020-08-22.
The Department of Defense has argued that the proposed NDAA language does not provide sufficient authorities to establish a separate branch under the Air Force.
The House and Senate agree that a new organization is required to retain American dominance in space and that it will reside within the Department of the Air Force.
The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles directorate awarded Viasat a $10,000,000 contract in May to test whether a Link 16 terminal on a small satellite could serve as a communications network relay in a program called XVI.
The Air Force will not be able to fly satellites on the Russian-engine-powered Atlas beyond 2022, motivating ULA to design Vulcan with a domestically produced engine.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander will launch from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Vulcan Centaur is being offered by ULA as a single vehicle to perform missions currently done by Atlas and Delta and to compete for NASA, commercial, and Air Force Phase 2 missions.
The 2019-08-17 launch carried the 65-kilogram Qiansheng-1 (01) remote sensing, communication, and navigation satellite plus two smaller payloads into 529- by 560-kilometer sun-synchronous orbits, according to U.S. Air Force data.
United Launch Alliance is financing factory improvements with funds awarded in October 2018 by the U.S. Air Force under the Launch Service Agreement contract.