April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
...image from the International Space Station. On 23 December, SpaceX launched the US Air Force’s first Global Positioning System III space vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Winners and losers SpaceX stole the headlines in February...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... its own dedicated west coast military base, Vandenberg Air Force Base. Not long afterwards, President Ronald Reagan’s ...Shuttle had its own dedicated west coast military base, Vandenberg Air Force Base. Full spectrum There has been a normalisation of ...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... as the preeminent spacefaring nation, supports our allies and improves the livelihood of people around the world. US Air Force/Lance Cheung Corey Lack Pictures In the House of Representatives, I have the honour of serving on the Armed Services...
08 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 1-8.
... this year, Bolton was elected senior vice president of Special Studies. He had previously retired from the Air Force after 37 years of service, after which he became the assistant administrator for NextGen at the Federal Aviation Administration...
10 August 2020
ULA & SpaceX win substantial US government launch contracts
...now stands at $22 billion. The NSSL program has returned approximately $7 billion in procurement funds to the Department of the Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office, enabling them to fund additional capabilities. The Space and Missile Systems...
July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
... the orbits of debris fragments (red), with the orbit of the International Space Station (white) as a comparison. The US Air Force makes available a lot of information resulting from its space surveillance network, but that information does not...
