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The U.S. Air Force will require space vehicles at its ranges to have an automated flight safety system beginning in 2023, and vehicles without AFSS by 2023 will have to pay for what the government provides.
The U.S. Air Force will select two providers next year from a field that includes Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, SpaceX, and ULA for NSSL Phase 2.
The SLC-6 runway was used to land the Air Force’s X-37B reusable spaceplane three times between 2010 and 2012.
Space Launch Complex 6 was originally built in the 1960s to launch the Air Force’s Manned Orbital Laboratory.
Up until late 2017 the Air Force planned a replacement for SBIRS that would have been ready to launch by 2029.
The Air Force did not have enough money in the 2018 and 2019 budgets to accelerate procurement of next-gen OPIR, causing the target delivery date to slip to 2025.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center is a 65-year-old institution that develops and builds satellites and decides which rockets will launch them into orbit.
NASA will conduct the Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) test at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 2019-07-02 during a four-hour window that opens at 7 a.m. Eastern.
Air Force leaders proposed next-gen OPIR as a fast-track program that could be ready to launch by 2023 using Section 804 authorities from the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016.
Continuous production agility aims to use standard satellite buses and modular payloads so the Air Force can expand its supplier base and buy buses and payloads from multiple vendors.
Rocket Lab’s Electron launched three technology demonstration satellites for the U.S. Air Force in May 2019.
Col. Robert Bongiovi stated that the Air Force will reopen the competition for Phase 3 starting in 2025 and will award Launch Service Agreement cost-sharing contracts so companies can invest in their vehicles and infrastructure.
Col. Robert Bongiovi estimated that the HASC language could expose the Air Force to having to make up to $1,500,000,000 available to SpaceX and perhaps other companies that win missions in Phase 2 after the first 29 launches.
The House Armed Services Committee’s version of the 2020 NDAA requires the Air Force to set aside $500,000,000 to help companies build launch pads and get their rockets certified.
The House Armed Services Committee’s version of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act directs the Air Force to create more opportunities for new entrants to compete in the Phase 2 Launch Service Procurement.
The Air Force plans to select two providers in 2020 to split all national security launches from 2022 to 2026.
The Air Force planned to use the STP-2 launch to gain experience with reused boosters.
The Air Force procured the STP-2 launch from SpaceX in 2012 for a launch originally scheduled for 2015.
Patrick Shanahan personally oversaw the writing of the legislative proposal to establish a Space Force under the Air Force.
Harris Corp. received an $18,000,000 contract modification on 2019-06-21 to build L- and S-band antennas for the Air Force Satellite Control Network.