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The Air Force manages large space programs that require checks and balances, quality control, and engineering discipline.
The Department of Defense plans to build the Space Force mostly with existing resources by transferring personnel from the Air Force, Navy, and Army.
Air Force Space Command hosted a satellite communications industry conference in Colorado Springs on 2019-02-14.
Congress directed the Defense Information Systems Agency to transfer the management of commercial satellite communications procurement to Air Force Space Command in the Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act.
Fred Kennedy served 23 years in the U.S. Air Force and retired with the rank of colonel.
Firefly Aerospace reached an agreement with Space Florida to help fund development of a launch site at Space Launch Complex 20 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and a launch vehicle factory just outside the gates of the Kennedy Space Center.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 2019-02-21 carrying an Indonesian communications satellite, an Israeli lunar lander, and a U.S. Air Force smallsat.
The United States last created a new military branch when it established the U.S. Air Force in 1947, more than seven decades ago.
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s S5 satellite will ride to near geostationary orbit with Nusantara Satu before deploying from the parent satellite.
Starting in 2021, as many as 10,000 people could be moved to the Space Force along with $8,000,000,000 worth of space programs, most of which are currently owned by the Air Force.
The 2019-02-21 Falcon 9 mission will include the Israeli lunar lander Beresheet and an Air Force Research Laboratory smallsat as rideshare payloads alongside Nusantara Satu.
SBIRS GEO-5, SBIRS GEO-6, and AFSPC-44 are Air Force Space-Based Infrared System geosynchronous Earth orbit satellites.
NROL-87 will launch in fiscal year 2021 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
The U.S. Air Force divided $739,000,000 in launch contracts between United Launch Alliance and SpaceX for six national security missions slated for 2021-2022.
Applied Defense Solutions received a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 award from the Air Force in 2017 for a project called Small Satellite System for Space Surveillance.
Blue Canyon Technologies won a contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory in September 2017 to build two smallsats intended to operate in geostationary orbit.
The U.S. Air Force is investing $3,200,000,000 in public-private partnerships with every major launch company except SpaceX.
The Chilean Air Force included alternatives in the RFI such as help building and launching a microsatellite constellation or acquiring a direct replacement for FASat-Charlie.
The Air Force, Army and Navy are expected to transfer between $10,000,000,000 and $12,000,000,000 worth of space programs and personnel to the Space Force between 2021 and 2024.
The Air Force recommended in a September memo that the next director of the National Reconnaissance Office also serve as the director of the Air Force Space Rapid Capabilities Office to establish unity of command and reduce duplication in space programs.