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  • Launch Enterprise Systems Directorate

    Mission The Space and Missile Systems Center's Launch Enterprise Systems Directorate (SMC/LE), was stood up Oct. 14, 2015 at Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, Calif. The directorate brings together the Launch Systems Directorate and the Rocket Systems Launch Program, which formerly fell

  • National Security Space Launch

    OverviewThe Launch Enterprise Systems Directorate of the Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, manages the National Security Space Launch program (NSSL, formerly the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle or EELV) program.  The program provides the United States