Artist’s rendering of WGS-11+

News

News Search

  • Air Force establishes National Security Space Launch program

    The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Enterprise Systems Directorate Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program name was officially changed to the National Security Space Launch program today.The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act directed the name change from EELV to NSSL

  • Air Force awards $739 million launch service contracts

    The United States Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), in partnership with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), awarded two Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) launch service contracts today. Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) has been awarded a $297 million

  • LA Dodgers Host Oath of Enlistment Ceremony for Air Force, Army, Navy

    The LA Dodgers hosted nearly 50 future service members, 3 current service members and their families for a joint enlistment and reenlistment ceremony, Jan. 22, Los Angeles, Calif. Seventeen future Airmen from the 369th Recruiting Squadron joined in an Oath of Enlistment ceremony, officiated by Navy

  • Air Force and its mission partners successfully launch NROL -71

    The U.S. Air Force and its mission partners successfully launched the NROL-71 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office aboard a Delta IV Heavy from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.  Liftoff occurred at ­­ 11:10 a.m. PST, Jan. 19. The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center acquired

  • Air Force Awards Hosted Payloads Delivery Order Under HoPS Contract

    The Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded General Atomics, Electromagnetic Systems Group (GA-EMS) a firm-fixed-price delivery order under the Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract for commercially hosting the Argos Advanced Data

  • First GPS III satellite successfully launched

    The U.S. Air Force and its mission partners successfully launched the first Global Positioning Systems (GPS) III satellite at  8:51 a.m. EST, Dec. 23 from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The Lockheed Martin-built satellite, known as “Vespucci,” in honor of

  • Launch Enterprise Systems Directorate uses SMC 2.0 initiatives to streamline

    Space is a warfighting domain, and while near-peer adversaries are rapidly advancing space capabilities that threaten Department of Defense systems and national security, Airmen at the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Enterprise Systems Directorate here are implementing SMC 2.0 initiatives

  • GPS III Space Vehicle 01 is encapsulated in the Falcon 9 payload fairing

    The Air Force’s first Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite was encapsulated within a SpaceX payload fairing at Astrotech on Dec. 7 in preparation for its upcoming launch later this month at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.Encapsulation of the satellite within its payload fairing serves

  • SMC Wingman show support for fellow airman via Wounded Warrior Workout

     Personnel from the Space and Missile Systems Center paid tribute to Katherine ‘Kat’ Portillo via Wounded Warrior Workout on Nov. 1 on the Turf Field, Los Angeles Air Force Base. Four years ago, Portillo was an active duty Air Force major and satellite operator stationed with Space and Missile

 

United States Space Force logo

Official United States Space Force Website