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 ...
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...
04 September 2017
Secret spaceplane set for another launch
... landed from, a higher inclination orbit than prior missions to further expand the X-37B’s orbital envelope,” the Air Force said in a release and reported on by PressTV. Past launches have taken place with the United Launch Alliance...
20 February 2019
Trump signs directive to initiate his Space Force
.... Initially touted to be its own independent department, the division will instead become a sixth branch of the US Air Force; an arrangement that will be periodically assessed to see whether a separate department is needed or not. “The United States...
