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  • Personnel Records Readiness: Are yours fully up to date?

    Because change is the one thing you can count on, take time now to review your personnel records to ensure they are ready for whatever is around the next corner. The Air Force Personnel Center is establishing an annual campaign to encourage Airmen to review their records at the beginning of each

  • Air Force Releases Findings to Date on Cause of Delay of DSP 23

    While securing the DSP-23/Delta IV launch vehicle after the Wet Dress rehearsal held on Feb. 28 , two structural cracks were observed in the metallic Launch Table. The cracks appeared on the bottom of the launch table's starboard and center bays; roughly underneath the liquid oxygen servicing

  • Road to housing privatization takes major step forward

    The Air Force has recently announced that Actus Lend Lease has been selected as the highest ranked offeror for the Tri-Group military family housing privatization project. Actus Lend Lease and the Air Force will form a Limited Liability Company to modernize Military Family Housing at Los Angeles and

  • Air Force Achieves Firsts With Atlas V Launch

    The first Atlas V rocket used by the Air Force successfully launched six experimental satellites for the Space Development and Test Wing (SDTW) STP-1 mission Thursday evening at 10:10 p.m. EST. A number of other Air Force Space Command organizations, including the Launch and Range Systems Wing at

  • AFSPC Command Chief ‘Talks the Talk’ on First Visit to Base

    Chief Master Sgt. Michael Sullivan, Air Force Space Command's Command Chief, paid his first visit to the Space and Missile Systems Center and Los Angeles Air Force Base, Feb. 28 - March 2 and shared his thoughts. Chief Sullivan defined his position at AFSPC and what he sees as his role, his views on

  • STP-1/Atlas V Team Boast Successful Launch

    The Space and Missile Systems Center successfully launched six experimental satellites atop an Atlas V rocket Thursday evening, at 10:10 p.m. thirty-three minutes into the launch window. The noise from the powerful RD-180 engines at T-0 came seconds later as the rocket pushed it self up and away

  • DoD experiments launch aboard Space Shuttle Discovery

    When the Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off Dec. 9, 2006 from launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., it was carrying 1,350 pounds of Department of Defense payloads. The DoD Space Test Program-sponsored experiments will test a number of new technologies to enhance the United States space

  • Advanced Extremely High Frequency Payload Ships to Sunnyvale

    The Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing, at the Space and Missile Systems Center announced today that the payload module for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite was shipped from Northrop Grumman Space Technology Park in Redondo Beach, Calif. and arrived at Lockheed

  • Delta II rocket motor recovered in Thailand

    The journey started Nov. 10, 2000, aboard a Delta II rocket carrying a GPS satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station into orbit. The Star-48 rocket motor, which is connected to the satellite until the motor is done firing, completed its mission and began orbiting the Earth. The titanium rocket

 

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