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  • SMC reschedules GPS III-3 launch

    The United States Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has decided to reschedule the launch of GPS III SV03 (GPS III-3) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to minimize the potential of COVID-19 exposure to the launch crew and early-orbit operators.The current GPS constellation is

  • LA AFB Airman thwarts kidnapping attempt

    First Lieutenant Jaime Torres, project manager for the Next Generation Missile Warning System at Los Angeles Air Force Base, didn’t waste any time intervening when he witnessed a woman in distress last October while driving to work.“I was driving in San Pedro when I noticed a woman pushing a

  • SMC awards $500 million contracts to Raytheon and L3 Technologies Inc.

    The Space and Missile Systems Center awarded Raytheon Company – Space and Airborne Systems and L3 Technologies Inc. two indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multi-award contracts with ceiling values of $500 million each, totaling $1 billion, for development and production of Protected Tactical

  • SMC prepares GPS Next Generation OCX for Operations

    On March 26, the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s GPS Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) program instructed Raytheon to replace the computer hardware in OCX prior to system delivery due to sale of IBM’s computer product line to a Chinese company.The Committee on

  • AEHF-6 Successfully Launched

    The U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center successfully launched the sixth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) communications satellite at 4:18 p.m. EDT, March 26, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The satellite was carried to orbit aboard a

  • AEHF-6 Ready for Launch

    The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s sixth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite rolled out to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex-41 launch pad  on March 25 ahead of its scheduled launch.Launch of the AEHF-6 satellite aboard a United Launch

  • GPS III SV02 Satellite Control Authority Transferred to 2 SOPS

    On March 23, the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center successfully transferred the second Global Positioning System III space vehicle (GPS III SV02) to Space Operations Command.  GPS III SV02, dubbed “Magellan” in honor of Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese explorer who led the first

  • CSO/CSAF COVID-19 VIDEO

    For the latest information check out, https://www.af.mil/News/Coronavirus-Disease-2019/

 

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