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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.
On 2024-11-12, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Rocket Lab a federal defense contract with a value up to $8,000,000.
NASA-developed technology onboard MuSat2 will supply the U.S. Air Force with data for producing reliable weather forecasts.
In 2023, Congress required the Department of the Air Force to validate that WGS-12 would fulfill military requirements not met by commercial alternatives.
The R-GPS program was created by Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall to build and launch small, low-cost PNT satellites to bolster the existing GPS fleet.
In 1963, the US Air Force pursued military manned spaceflight efforts that surpassed those of the Army and Navy.
The Air Force was responsible for building and paying for the Vandenberg shuttle facilities to support military payloads.
The USAF envisioned very large orbital stations powered by nuclear reactors in 1963.
The Air Force began construction of new facilities at Vandenberg Air Force Base to support the space shuttle in the early 1980s.
Major reconstruction of the SLC-6 launch pad was part of the facilities being built at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
The Air Force envisioned up to two pads at Vandenberg for shuttle launches in the early planning stages.
The Air Force used eminent domain to acquire land from the Sudden family for the expansion of Vandenberg Air Force Base.
The Air Force built Space Launch Complex 6 to launch the Titan IIIM rocket in support of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program.
The USAF announced the small military space station called the Manned Orbital Laboratory (MOL) on December 10, 1963.
The USAF wished to continue its OSS Study as originally planned, despite it being unapproved at that time.
Col. John M. Coulter from the USAF and Dr. M. I. Yarymovych from NASA chaired the MOL meeting.
By 1968, the Air Force began construction on the Titan IIIM launch pad facility that would become SLC-6.
NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite was launched in November 2000 from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
NASA's Van Allen Probes were launched in August 2012 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The National Reconnaissance Office is working with Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman to ensure the expanded LEO constellation meets military needs.