19 February 2018
Space Launch Complex 10: Vandenberg’s Cold War National Landmark
...-10 had two main applications: between 1959 and 1962, it was used for ‘combat training launches’ by the UK’s Royal Air Force; and between 1965 and 1980 it launched American weather satellites in the Defense Meteorological Support Program (DMSP...
18 January 2021
Virgin Orbit rocket reaches orbit for first time
... its next mission. Virgin Orbit has subsequent launches booked by customers ranging from the US Space Force and the UK’s Royal Air Force to commercial customers like Swarm Technologies, Italy’s SITAEL, and Denmark’s GomSpace. The company’s next few...
October 2020
Open Source Space
...leading provider of advanced nanosatellite spacecraft, subsystems and mission services. She is also an Honorary Group Captain of Royal Air Force 601 Squadron, which was re-established in 2017 to provide specialist industry and business support to the...
February 2021
Cyber and Space – the role of the cyber-range
... Institute of Space Policy & Law. He previously served in the Royal Air Force, where he was an operational pilot and commanded both 12 Squadron and... RAF Lossiemouth. He was Director of the Air Staff in MoD (2007-2010) with Space and Cyber...
