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Relativity planned the first launch of Terran 1 for the very end of 2020 from a launch site the company plans to construct at Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The Air Force has been working with appropriators on an option to double the capacity of WGS-11 to avoid procuring WGS-12.
WGS-11 is being funded with money that Congress inserted into the fiscal year 2018 budget for satellites the Air Force had not intended to buy.
Boeing received a $605,000,000 contract for production of the Air Force’s 11th Wideband Global SATCOM satellite, WGS-11.
The Air Force is obligating $300,000,000 of the $605,000,000 WGS-11 award at the time of the contract modification.
The Air Force is negotiating with Boeing to deliver WGS-11 on-orbit, with Boeing responsible for launching the satellite and turning it over to the Air Force.
JPL delivered COWVR to the Air Force Space Rapid Capabilities Office prior to cancellation of ORS-6 launch plans due to problems with the satellite bus.
In 2016, the Air Force planned to send COWVR into a 600-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit on a 300-kilogram satellite as part of Operationally Responsive Space-6.
The U.S. Air Force plans to test a small microwave sensor developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the International Space Station in 2021.
The Air Force plans to send COWVR to the International Space Station in 2021 for one to three years as part of Space Test Program Houston 8.
The National Reconnaissance Office started as a secret program in 1960 established jointly by the U.S. Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency.
The 2019-04-16 letter from Reps. Ken Calvert and Ted Lieu raises strong objections to the Space Development Agency taking missions away from the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center.
Aerojet Rocketdyne renegotiated the Air Force agreement in June 2018, decreasing the total value to $353,800,000 with the Air Force providing five-sixths of the total cost.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne an agreement in 2016 to support development of the AR1 engine.
Aerojet Rocketdyne’s revised agreement with the Air Force covers work to design, build, and assemble a single AR1 engine prototype by December 2019 according to the company’s Form 10-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The original value of the Air Force other transaction agreement for AR1 development was $804,000,000 with the Air Force providing two-thirds of the funding and the remainder coming from Aerojet Rocketdyne and, to a lesser extent, United Launch Alliance.
Congress passed a law in 2015 that set a 2022 deadline for the Air Force to phase out United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket powered by the Russian RD-180 engine.
The Air Force will decide annually which provider gets specific missions in order to manage the manifest and even out the 60/40 split over the five-year period.
The Air Force began investing in rocket propulsion systems at the beginning of 2016.
The Air Force plans for the two selected Phase 2 providers to split national security launches 60/40 between 2022 and 2026.