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Two days after the 2019-03-27 test, the U.S. Air Force was tracking 250 pieces of debris created when India’s PDV-Mk II intercepted Microsat-R at 280 km.
The Air Force increased SpEC’s budget fivefold to $500,000,000 in 2019.
Blue Origin requests that the U.S. Air Force wait until 2021 before selecting the two companies to receive future national security launch contracts.
United Launch Alliance is eligible to receive up to $967,000,000 from the Air Force to support development of the Vulcan Centaur rocket.
The U.S. Air Force aims to solicit proposals in spring 2019 and select two preferred launch providers in 2020.
Before the Launch Service Agreement award, Northrop Grumman and the Air Force had invested more than $300,000,000 in developing OmegA.
Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, and Northrop Grumman were chosen in October by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to share $2,300,000,000 in Launch Service Agreement funding.
The U.S. Air Force requires at least two Vulcan missions with commercial customers as a prerequisite for Vulcan certification to launch national security payloads.
Parsons won a contract in February worth up to $100,000,000 over five years from the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Enterprise Directorate to serve as prime contractor for the integration of small satellites with launch vehicles.
An Air Chiefs panel featuring Gens. Goldfein and Raymond and Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier of the Royal Air Force is scheduled at the 35th Space Symposium on Tuesday from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Northrop Grumman is eligible to receive up to $792,000,000 from the Air Force to support development of the OmegA solid-fueled rocket.
Lester Lyles, a retired Air Force general, proposed the task force and serves as chairman of the Users’ Advisory Group’s exploration and discovery subcommittee.
The Air Force requires the three LSA winners plus SpaceX to submit new proposals in 2019 to be eligible for selection as one of two providers in 2020 to split up to 25 future launch contracts.
In the second phase of the Launch Service Agreement, the Air Force plans to select two providers in 2020 to split 60/40 up to 25 launches over five years starting in 2022.
Under Blue Origin’s LSA award, the Air Force agreed to provide Blue Origin up to $500,000,000 between 2019 and 2024 to prepare the reusable New Glenn rocket and associated infrastructure for military launches.
The Air Force is developing the Joint Space Operations Center Mission System Increment 2 (JMS) as its next-generation space situational awareness system.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded Slingshot Aerospace a $6,000,000 two-year contract to customize the company’s Orbital Atlas predictive space situational awareness software for possible military use.
Relativity has an initial agreement with the U.S. Air Force to develop a launch facility at Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The Defense Department submitted a legislative proposal in February to create a Space Force under the Department of the Air Force led by a four-star chief of staff, a four-star vice chief of staff, and a civilian undersecretary.
The U.S. Air Force originally planned to release the request for proposals for the Launch Service Procurement on 2019-03-29.