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Singapore startups NuSpace and Aliena plan to send their joint NuX-1 demonstration satellite on Momentus’ Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle after it launches in early 2021 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
In 2020 the Air Force plans additional initiatives including additional Space Pitch days, accelerator projects, and a Hyperspace Challenge to link tech startups with government innovators.
Under the 2014 contract for CCS Block 10.2, L3Harris will deliver systems in 2020 to Air National Guard units in California, Colorado, Florida, and Hawaii, as well as to the 4th Space Control Squadron.
The U.S. Air Force first deployed three Counter Communications System Block 10.0 units in 2004 in response to electronic warfare systems fielded by other countries.
NASA, using the Air Force’s Hosted Payload Solutions contract vehicle, tasked Maxar with installing the Ball Aerospace-built TEMPO payload on a geostationary satellite.
The 2020 NDAA requires the secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Space Operations to regularly brief defense and appropriations committees through March 2023.
Details on how the new assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration office will be organized will be provided on 2020-03-31 in a separate NDAA-mandated update.
On 2020-01-09 the Air Force Research Laboratory said it had signed a CRADA last July with ABL Space Systems covering development and testing of rocket propulsion systems.
The Air Force plans to start operational testing of the GPS enterprise in 2020.
Gen. John W. Raymond named Air Force Brig. Gen. (select) Michael Conley vice commander of Space Operations Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on 2020-01-30.
Other sources using data such as the U.S. Air Force catalog produced similar probability estimates for the IRAS–GGSE-4 conjunction.
The Air Force awarded a $5,000,000 contract to Applied Technology Associates of Paso Robles, California to assemble the Compact Environmental Anomaly Sensor 3 developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory.
The contracts announced in January on the Space Enterprise Consortium website are part of the Air Force’s effort to improve space weather monitoring.
The Air Force awarded a $1,800,000 contract to Teledyne Brown Engineering of Huntsville, Alabama to assemble ECP-Lite, a sensor developed by the Aerospace Corp.
On 2020-01-28, Raytheon won a $197,000,000 U.S. Air Force contract to design a ground system to collect and process data from missile warning satellites.
Congress created the assistant secretary for acquisition and integration to oversee U.S. Space Force procurements under a chain of command separate from Air Force acquisition programs.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, signed by President Trump on 2019-12-20, enacted the U.S. Space Force and created the office of the assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration.
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will launch in November on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
On 2019-12-20, President Trump signed the law that created the U.S. Space Force by renaming U.S. Air Force Space Command and making it a separate military service.
The delta symbol was first used as early as 1942 by the U.S. Army Air Forces and appeared in early Air Force space organization emblems dating back to 1961.