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ABL plans to offer commercial launch services from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
On 2020-08-03, ABL Space Systems received two U.S. Air Force contracts worth $44,500,000.
The $44,500,000 Air Force contracts include a one-year AFWERX deal to demonstrate launch technology and an agreement with the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Enterprise Consortium to conduct three demonstrations of an RS1 vehicle variant and deployable ground infrastructure in 2022.
L3Harris will build a navigation satellite for the U.S. Air Force scheduled to be launched to a geosynchronous orbit in 2022.
The Office of Management and Budget objected to an Air Force recommendation that Congress incrementally appropriate funding for large satellite programs rather than fully funding the entire cost in the year the satellite is ordered.
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V will roll out to the pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on 2020-07-28.
The Techstars Allied Space Accelerator, established in 2019, received funding from the U.S. Air Force, the Netherlands Ministry of Defence, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, and the Norwegian Space Agency.
The Department of the Air Force plans to award National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contracts to two launch providers next month.
The removed Section 1602 dealt with the distribution of launches for Phase 2 and required the Air Force to ensure that launch services are procured only from launch service providers that use launch vehicles meeting federal requirements with respect to required payloads to reference orbits.
The Air Force asked for the wording in Section 1602 to be changed out of concern that the language would lead to lawsuits or protests from launch providers that were not awarded Phase 2 contracts.
On 2020-07-02, the U.S. Air Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron issued a warning to the University of Wuerzburg of a 2020-07-05 conjunction between UWE-4 and a retired Iridium satellite.
Communities from 26 states submitted bids in the Air Force open bidding process to host the permanent U.S. Space Command headquarters.
The U.S. Air Force will use BlackSky’s artificial intelligence and machine learning analytics platform to monitor areas and track the spread of COVID-19 to protect deployed personnel and secure critical nodes of the supply chain.
BlackSky received a U.S. Air Force contract on 2020-07-21 to monitor overseas U.S. military bases, detect outbreaks, and analyze the spread of COVID-19.
Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, indicated on 2020-07-14 that the $116,000,000 set aside for the small launch awards was reallocated to small business loan programs and that small launch contracts would be the first to be reconsidered if additional funding became available.
The Air Force launched an open bidding process in May to select the permanent location of the U.S. Space Command headquarters.
The fiscal year 2021 bill adds $15,000,000 for the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 directed the Pentagon to name an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration.
Descartes Labs’ tools create a single source of intelligence truth and are intended to provide the Air Force with actionable insights to improve decision-making.
Descartes Labs was awarded a $1,500,000 contract on 2020-07-08 to help the U.S. Air Force draw intelligence from imagery and other data collected by satellites and autonomous aerial vehicles.