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  • SMC unveils Enlisted Heritage wall, honors Chief Arnold

    Participants of an unveiling ceremony pull back the curtains to reveal an Enlisted Heritage wall at the South Bay Bar and Grill on Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., June 23, 2021. The wall is titled "CMSgt Lisa Arnold Enlisted Heritage Wall" after the current Space and Missile Systems Center's

  • SMC and its mission partners successfully launch Fifth GPS III satellite

    LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center and its mission partners successfully launched the fifth Global Positioning Systems (GPS) III Space Vehicle at 12:09 p.m. EDT (9:09 am. PDT) June 17 from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force

  • SMC stands up new Space Safari program office

    Lt. Gen. John F. Thompson, Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), recently announced the establishment of the Space Safari Program Office within SMC’s Special Programs Directorate. Space Safari responds to high-priority, urgent space needs by rapidly acquiring, integrating and executing

  • Shining Star volunteers recognized by AFRC

    The Airman and Family Readiness office, presented a “cost savings” check for $536,247 to Los Angeles Air Force Base which represents the 19,000 volunteer hours those individuals donated to the base during a ceremony held on here April 15, 2021.  Twenty five outstanding Shining Star volunteers were

  • From Air Force SNCO to Space Force Officer

    “You don’t sound like a master sergeant,” said the Air Force general officer to the puzzled Air Force master sergeant during a meeting at Los Angeles Air Force Base. “You sound like a lieutenant.”

  • USSF awards Missile Track Custody Prototype effort

    The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has awarded two contracts for the Missile Track Custody Prototype effort. The effort will carry two contractors – Millennium Space Systems and Raytheon – through a payload Critical Design Review and delivery of digital models.

  • USSF partnering with VOX Space for first DoD launch

    LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The United States Space Force, Space and Missile Systems Center has partnered with VOX Space, a US-incorporated, wholly-owned subsidiary of Virgin Orbit, to launch multiple Department of Defense satellites on a commercial rideshare mission from the Mojave Air

  • SBIRS GEO-5 Successfully Launched

    LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The U.S. Space Force successfully launched the fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite on an Atlas V launch vehicle from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, May 18, at 1:37 p.m.

 

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