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  • USSF-7 mission director reflects upon 28.5 year space career

    Thirty years ago as an Air Force ROTC cadet at the University of Washington, Col. Shane Clark had no idea how his career would turn out, or the circuitous route he would take to where he is today as mission director for the launch of the U.S. Space Force's USSF-7, and the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle

  • USSF-7 Mission successfully launched

    The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Enterprise team and its mission partners successfully launched the USSF-7 mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle for the Department of the Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 501 launch vehicle

  • USSF-7 mission ready to launch X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle

    All systems are “Go” for the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Enterprise, who procured a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 501 launch vehicle for this week’s USSF-7 mission, which rolled out today at 10 a.m. EDT to its launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 on Florida’s Space

  • SMC Specialty Engineer competes in Olympic trials

    A Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) engineer hones his body and keeps his mind sharp, achieving higher-and-higher levels of accomplishment through competitive table-tennis.Gabriel Griffin is a DCIA User Engagement contractor for the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) and a US Army Reserve

  • Kobayashi Maru delivers ‘coalition friendly’ Platform

    In July 2018, General Jay Raymond, now the U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations, presided over a ceremony to re-designate the former Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base as the Combined Space Operations Center, or CSpOC. That event signified a pivot in U.S. Strategic

  • SBIRS GEO-5 Space Vehicle Enters Critical Thermal Vacuum Testing

    The Space and Missile Systems Center’s next Space Based Infrared System satellite (SBIRS GEO-5) reached a major milestone on its the road to launch when Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) testing began on April 16 at Lockheed Martin’s production facility in Sunnyvale, California. SBIRS GEO-5 is a high-priority

  • SMC Announces Annual Award Winners

    The United States Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) announced its outstanding military and civilian personnel for 2019, April 17.SMC cancelled the award banquet in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, however leadership still found a way to recognize the winners.“Like many

 

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