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  • USSF, SMC launches sounding rocket for AFRL experiment

    The U.S. Space Force and the Space and Missile Systems Center's Launch Enterprise successfully launched an experimental research payload for the Air Force Research Laboratory March 3, 2021, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.The payload was aboard a Terrier-Terrier-Oriole Sounding Rocket and the

  • End of an Era: The AEHF Program comes to a close

    After 20 years, six satellites and thousands hours of dedicated work, the Advanced Extremely High Frequency program is coming to a close. The Satellite Control Authority of the sixth and final satellite in the constellation transferred to the operators (DELTA 8 / 4SOPs) on Oct. 29, 2020. Operational

  • SMC Awards SpEC Consortium Manager Agreement to NSTXL

    LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The United States Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) competitively awarded the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) consortium manager agreement to National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL) on Jan. 15, 2021.

  • LDPE-1 SV safely arrives in Florida for February launch

    CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla. -- The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) successfully delivered the Long Duration Propulsion ESPA - 1 (LDPE-1) space vehicle, to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on Dec 7, 2020. LDPE-1 is the first of two spacecraft on the

  • USSF launches NRO payload aboard a ULA Delta IV Heavy Launch Vehicle

    LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Enterprise team and partners successfully launched the National Reconnaissance Office Launch (NROL)-44 mission at 8:09 p.m. EDT Dec. 10 from the newly rechristened Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s

 

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