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The possibility of using SpaceX vehicles to move military cargo was raised in 2018 by former Air Mobility Command commander Gen. Carlton Everhart.
On 2020-08-07, the U.S. Air Force selected United Launch Alliance and SpaceX as the winners of the launch service procurement competition.
SpaceX challenged the U.S. Air Force over contracts the Air Force awarded in October 2018 to United Launch Alliance, Northrop Grumman, and Blue Origin.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Launch Service Agreement contracts to Blue Origin for $500 million, to United Launch Alliance for $967 million, and to Northrop Grumman for $762,000,000 to help the companies defray the costs of developing new rockets and infrastructure while competing for a launch service procurement contract.
Judge Otis D. Wright II of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California rejected SpaceX’s protest of rocket development contracts the U.S. Air Force awarded in 2018.
IMAP is targeted to launch in October 2024 on a Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The Space Force activated a geostationary weather satellite transferred to the Air Force by NOAA in 2019.
Appropriators in the 2020 Defense Department conference report raised concerns about the Air Force’s commitment to provide accurate and timely weather data for worldwide military operations.
The fourth GPS 3 vehicle is scheduled to launch 2020-09-29 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on a new Falcon 9 that SpaceX will attempt to recover.
In a second phase of testing scheduled to begin in early 2021, the Air Force and Army plan to evaluate whether Isotropic Systems antennas can connect simultaneously with an SES geostationary satellite and an SES O3b satellite in medium Earth orbit.
The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite was slated to launch 2020-11-10 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9.
The Department of the Air Force, the Missile Defense Agency, the Space Development Agency, and others are planning to spend tens of billions of dollars pursuing various potential satellite constellations with a variety of sensor types, constellation sizes, and orbits ranging from proliferated low Earth to geosynchronous.
U.S. Air Force Space Command was disestablished when the U.S. Space Force was created on 2019-12-20.
A new study by the U.S. Air Force’s university think tank confirms that China’s anti-satellite weapons pose a national security threat to the United States.
The funds that must transfer from the Air Force to the Space Force include $2,600,000,000 for operations and maintenance, $77,000,000 for emergency war spending, $10,300,000,000 for research, development, testing and evaluation, and $2,200,000,000 for procurement.
The 1,250-kilogram NTS-3 satellite is being built by L3Harris under an $84,000,000 contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory in December 2018.
Relativity Space reached an agreement with the U.S. Air Force in June to study establishing a new launch site at Vandenberg.
Brandywine Photonics is developing weather instruments and proposing constellation architectures under Air Force Small Business Innovation Research awards.
Under a 2019 Air Force phase two SBIR contract worth nearly $750,000, Brandywine Photonics is developing the Compact Hyperspectral Infrared Sounding Instrument to measure atmospheric temperature and moisture and to monitor winds in three dimensions.
The central task for companies selected to DEUCSI over the subsequent three years is to assist the U.S. Air Force in understanding technical issues related to equipping military platforms with communication terminals that can communicate with satellites from multiple broadband providers.