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The E-4B fleet includes four militarized, nuclear-hardened Boeing 747 command-and-control airplanes operated by Air Force Global Strike Command.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center is the center of technical excellence for developing, acquiring, fielding, and sustaining about $6,000,000,000 worth of military space systems.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center was established in 1954.
The Air Force operates the SBIRS high constellation and has committed at least $3,000,000,000 to develop the next-generation Overhead Persistent Infrared system, or next-gen OPIR.
The Air Force’s Space Enterprise Consortium was established in 2017 to attract startups and commercial companies and bring new space technology into defense programs.
Congress provided the Air Force with a total of about $20,000,000 in 2017, 2018, and 2019 budgets to assess whether data from commercial weather satellites could meet military requirements.
Relativity won approval from the U.S. Air Force to build a launch site at Cape Canaveral on 2019-01-17.
The Air Force has awarded contracts for about $7,000,000 through the Commercial Weather Data Pilot Program with another $3,000,000 in process as of 2019-01-09.
On 2019-01-17 Relativity was granted a Right of Entry for Launch Complex 16 (LC-16) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station by the 45th Space Wing of the United States Air Force.
The Air Force is considering awarding Small Business Innovation Research funding to support commercial satellite weather data efforts.
Relativity is the first venture-backed orbital launch company to receive a direct agreement with the U.S. Air Force for LC-16 at Cape Canaveral.
The U.S. Air Force has obligated about $7,000,000 of a $20,000,000 budget for commercial satellite weather data.
The Air Force is considering working with accelerators such as the Catalyst Campus for Technology & Innovation in Colorado Springs, Colorado to establish contracts quickly.
Aireon is most of the way through obtaining certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency that would enable the company to provide pan-European service to multiple air navigation service providers.
The U.S. Air Force released an unclassified report on 2019-01-16 created by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center that takes a broader look at the militarization of space.
The Air Force mission carrying the 110-kilogram Orbital Test Bed sensor is scheduled to launch in 2021.
The Air Force relies heavily on DMSP-17, launched in 2006, and DMSP-18, launched in 2009, which are polar-orbiting satellites that cross the equator in the morning to gather global weather data.
The Air Force plans to move a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) into a similar orbit to Meteosat 8 as a temporary fix.
The Lockheed Martin upgrades to the legacy ground control system will allow the Air Force to operate the GPS 3 constellation with the existing ground system until 2025.
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act directed the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee to ask the Air Force Secretary for a plan by 2019-03-01 to acquire persistent weather imagery over Central Command without relying on foreign or legacy NOAA spacecraft.