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U.S. Air Force

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gov defenseFounded 1947
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
www.airforce.com/
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The U.S. Air Force did not launch any new GPS satellites in 2017 and aimed to place a GPS satellite on orbit before the end of 2018.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralDec 13, 2018Highly anticipated GPS 3 launch just days away

Congress in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act directed Air Force Space Command to take over responsibility for procurement of commercial satcom services for the Department of Defense by 2018-12-12.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipDec 12, 2018Satellite industry seeks answers on future direction of military satcom

Congress added $600,000,000 to the fiscal year 2018 defense budget for the Air Force to expand the Wideband Global Satcom constellation from 10 to 12 satellites.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipDec 12, 2018Satellite industry seeks answers on future direction of military satcom

Congress passed legislation in 2016 requiring the Air Force to develop domestic alternatives to the RD-180 and prohibiting the Pentagon from signing contracts for Atlas V launches after 2022.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipDec 12, 2018Incoming HASC Chairman to oppose creating a separate military branch for space

Virgin Galactic uses the 50-mile (approximately 80-kilometer) altitude, the threshold used by NASA and the U.S. Air Force for awarding astronaut wings, as a major milestone for determining that the vehicle has reached space.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralDec 11, 2018Virgin Galactic to attempt flight to space this week

The Aerospace Corporation is a nonprofit federally funded think tank that provides technical advice to the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office on military space programs.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceTechnical ProductDec 10, 2018Aerospace Corp. to lay out strategy to ‘outpace the threat’ in space

SpaceX had one more mission planned for 2018: a 2018-12-18 launch of the U.S. Air Force’s first GPS-3 satellite.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralDec 7, 2018SpaceX’s final Iridium Next launch delayed to January

Congress provided major funding increases for space in the U.S. Air Force's fiscal year 2019 budget.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralDec 6, 2018Griffin: Pentagon ‘scrambling’ to figure out space reorganization

A Falcon 9 launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 1:34 p.m. 2018-12-03 on a mission to place 64 smallsats into orbit.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipDec 4, 2018Experiment issue delays Dragon launch to the ISS

Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center oversees approximately $7,000,000,000 in programs.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceTechnical ProductDec 4, 2018Pentagon analyzing possible missions for a new Space Development Agency

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein ordered a 90-day study last week involving red teams and intelligence experts to inform space budget priorities for fiscal year 2021.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralDec 3, 2018Wilson: Air Force staying focused on space mission as reorganization looms

Congress approved Air Force requests in fiscal year 2019 to add $7,000,000,000 to space programs over the next five years and reallocate $5,000,000,000 from other accounts.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipDec 3, 2018Wilson: Air Force staying focused on space mission as reorganization looms

Atlas Space Operations is working under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Air Force to develop Atlas Links, an electronically steered antenna array.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipDec 3, 2018Atlas Space Operations wins first defense customer

The U.S. Air Force will continue developing capabilities to defeat adversaries in space regardless of how a reorganization to create a Space Force is resolved.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceTechnical ProductDec 1, 2018Pentagon procurement chief endorses Space Force

The Falcon 9 flying the SSO-A mission for Spaceflight Industries is scheduled to launch on 2018-12-03 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipNov 30, 2018Dedicated rideshare Falcon 9 launch raises satellite tracking concerns

Wayne Monteith is an Air Force brigadier general who will formally retire from the service on 2018-12-01.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralNov 29, 2018Former Air Force general picked to lead FAA commercial space office

InSight launched on an Atlas V from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on 2018-05-05.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralNov 26, 2018InSight successfully lands on Mars

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 was scheduled to launch 64 small satellites on the Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base but the mission was stood down for additional inspections and postponed for at least a week.

Mentioned as: air forceNarrative PlanNov 21, 2018Small satellite industry stepping up advocacy in Washington

The Space Corps option within the Department of the Air Force assumes a 27,300-person total workforce including military and civilians and an $11,300,000,000 annual budget with about $11,000,000,000 drawn from existing Air Force accounts.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative FinancialNov 19, 2018How much does a Space Force cost? Analyst lays out menu of options

Two years prior to the report, the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded prototype terminal contracts of $39,000,000 to Raytheon, $38,000,000 to L3, and $33,000,000 to Viasat for field demonstrations scheduled through 2020.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipNov 19, 2018Future military satcom system puts cybersecurity first
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