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The Space and Missile Systems Center transferred the Counter Communications System Block 10.2 to the 4th Space Control Squadron at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, on 2020-03-12 after testing it over the past year.
The U.S. Air Force first deployed the Counter Communications System in 2004 in response to foreign electronic warfare systems disrupting American satellites.
The Pentagon’s 2020 budget includes $182,000,000 for a new NASIC headquarters building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
NASA’s Infrared Astronomical Satellite, launched in 1983, came within meters of colliding with Gravity Gradient Stabilization Experiment-4, a U.S. Air Force satellite launched in 1967, in January.
The Joint Polar Satellite System 2 spacecraft will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 2022.
Susan Mashiko retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2014.
The Falcon 9 launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:50 p.m. Eastern.
The U.S. Air Force decided in 2017 to end production of new SBIRS satellites and transition to Next-Gen OPIR for improved survivability against electronic and cyberattacks.
The U.S. Air Force signed an agreement with the Norwegian Ministry of Defense to host two EPS-Recapitalization payloads on Space Norway spacecraft.
The 2021 budget includes $1,050,000,000 to fund three Air Force Space Command missions code named AFSPC-36, AFSPC-87 and AFSPC-112.
The National Guard's 2020 funding for space operations includes $71,000,000 for 1,100 personnel assigned to Air National Guard units and $5,000,000 for 152 personnel from the Army National Guard.
The U.S. Air Force started the Protected Tactical Satcom program in 2018 to develop secure satellite communications services that reduce dependence on the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite system.
Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett will re-open the process to select a permanent headquarters for U.S. Space Command later 2020 to give state and local leaders a fresh opportunity to make their pitches.
PredaSAR is a Florida startup led by retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Roger Teague.
The projected $2,600,000,000 represents additional costs for the Space Force beyond the $15,400,000,000 transferred from Air Force accounts.
In its fiscal year 2021 budget request, the Air Force shifted $15,400,000,000 to the Space Force from accounts that were previously in Air Force appropriations.
The Space Force was established on 2019-12-20 under the Department of the Air Force.
Congress in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act directed the Air Force to provide an estimate of the cost to stand up the Space Force and fund its key programs over the next five years.
Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett submitted a report to congressional committees projecting the U.S. Space Force budget to grow by $2,600,000,000 over the next five years.
The Trump administration transferred money from existing Air Force space programs to fund the Space Force 2021 request rather than adding $15,400,000,000 in new Pentagon funds.