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The P-11 satellite was turned over to the Air Force Museum after its exhibition in 1970.
The P-11 satellite was removed from display after the Air Force Museum's expansion around 2010.
By the late 1970s, the satellites began serving tactical users like deployed Army and Air Force units in Europe and Korea.
Starting in the early 1960s, the United States Air Force launched satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
The Department of the Air Force will accept public comments on the scope of the planned EIS through 2024-01-27.
The Department of the Air Force is planning three in-person public meetings 2024-01-14 through 16 in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and Lompoc, California, and an online public meeting 2024-01-23 to discuss the planned EIS.
Space Launch Complex 6 was built in the 1960s for the Air Force’s Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, which was canceled in 1969 before any launches took place.
Draken International won a $280,000,000 contract with the U.S. Air Force in 2018.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Integrated Experiments and Evaluation Branch (AFRL/RVE) awarded CesiumAstro a contract to design, build, test, and deliver a Skylark LMG Ka-band active electronically steered array user terminal within 12 months.
The Arizona radar was partially funded by a 2023 U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award.
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) was awarded a $45,469,600, five-year cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate.
The March 2024 prototype weather satellite was launched in partnership with the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and the Defense Innovation Unit.
The four-year deal with the Air Force Research Laboratory, dated 2024-11-26, leverages Varda’s W-Series reentry capsules as platforms to test payloads at hypersonic speeds.
Commercial reentry capsules offer the U.S. Air Force an operational environment to test vehicle subsystems under real flight conditions.
The Air Force Research Laboratory launched the Space Power InfraRed Regulation and Analysis of Lifetime experiment on 2024-11-04.
Ted Huetter took photos of seven shuttle landings at Edwards Air Force Base between 1982 and 1989.
FASTBACK-B was proposed as a second variant of FASTBACK, featuring a digital data-return system through the Air Force Satellite Control Network.
The U.S. Space Force and the U.S. Air Force are exploring concepts to use Starship as a rapid global transport system capable of delivering personnel and cargo to any point on Earth in under an hour, potentially replacing platforms like the C-17 Globemaster III.
The U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps are collaborating under a Tri-Service Memorandum of Understanding on critical sub-systems for CCA platforms.
Reed and Shaheen requested that Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall provide a briefing on the case and on efforts to increase competition among commercial space capability providers no later than 2024-12-01.