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The Air Force projects OSP-4 will procure about 20 missions over nine years.
The Air Force selected contractors for OSP-3 in 2012: SpaceX, Orbital Sciences Corp (later Orbital ATK, then Northrop Grumman), and Lockheed Martin.
The Air Force intends to select two winners for the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 Launch Service Procurement in 2020 to split 60/40 a few dozen medium- and heavy-lift national security missions between 2022 and 2026.
Blue Origin’s complaint to the GAO seeks clarification on points the company raised with the Air Force in written comments and meetings.
The U.S. Air Force will select two companies in 2020 to split 60/40 as many as 34 national security missions between 2022 and 2026.
The Air Force awarded a Launch Service Agreement in 2018 to Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, and Northrop Grumman to help pay for rocket development and infrastructure.
Vector won a $3,400,000 U.S. Air Force contract for the Agile Small Launch Operational Normalizer (ASLON)-45 mission under the Small Rocket Program-Orbital (SRP-O).
The core team at Vector will support other work, including a recently awarded U.S. Air Force launch contract.
The Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload approach saved the Air Force nearly $300,000,000 compared with mounting the sensor on a dedicated Air Force satellite, according to a 2018 Government Accountability Office report.
The U.S. Air Force is working with government and industry partners to reduce the cost of small satellite sensors.
The Air Force’s AEHF-5 communications satellite reached orbit after separating from a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket approximately 5 hours and 40 minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
The U.S. Air Force selected 14 companies in July 2014 for the Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) contract vehicle to help the government launch military payloads on commercial satellites.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded United Launch Alliance a $156,700,000 contract modification on 2019-08-07 for a Delta 4 Heavy launch of the National Reconnaissance Office mission NROL-70.
The Air Force is buying the three Delta 4 Heavy missions to ensure the NRO can place very large satellites on orbit before 2024 while transitioning to new vehicles under the National Security Space Launch program starting in 2022.
Vector Launch received a $3,400,000 contract from the Air Force Rocket Systems Launch Program office to lift experimental satellites to low Earth orbit.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center negotiated with United Launch Alliance savings of approximately $27,500,000 per launch for the three Delta 4 Heavy missions.
DoD officials testified that the Senate bill does not provide the authorities and resources the Pentagon believes are needed to create a separate military branch for space under the Department of the Air Force.
SpaceX plans to carry out a series of Falcon 9 launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base starting in late 2020 or early 2021 and continuing annually through at least 2023.
SpaceX ruled out launching Starship/Super Heavy from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral and Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base because those sites would require more modifications and the Vandenberg site did not support trajectories for the vast majority of missions.
The National Security Space Launch program is one of four Air Force major acquisition programs that have cost increases greater than $1,000,000,000 or 10% since December 2018.