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  • 50-Year Old Minuteman Motor Passes Static Fire Test

    As part of its mission of storing and maintaining decommissioned solid Intercontinental Ballistic Missile stages, the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Rocket System Launch Program, located at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, routinely conducts robust aging surveillance efforts including

  • SMC members “Hoop it up” with Los Angeles Lakers

    How often do you get a chance to scrimmage with the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers?Prior to the start of a preseason game Oct. 11 against the Portland Trailblazers, 50 members from the Space and Missile System Center got that chance. The SMC personnel from Los Angeles Air Force Base here were given

  • New Fisher House debuts at VA Long Beach

    Tracye Davis, acting director of the Veterans Affairs Long Beach Healthcare System was handed the keys to the sixth and newest Fisher House to open in California by Fisher House Foundation president David Coker during a dedication ceremony Oct. 19 at the VA Long Beach Medical Center.This home will

  • Air Force Awards NROL-111 Mission Contract

    The U.S. Air Force’s Rocket Systems Launch Program, part of the Launch Enterprise Directorate at the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), awarded the National Reconnaissance Office Launch-111 contract to Orbital ATK. The contract is a firm-fixed-price contract valued at $29.2 million for a

  • Air Force, its mission partners successfully launches WGS-8 satellite

    The U.S. Air Force and its mission partners successfully launched the 8th Boeing-built Wideband Global SATCOM satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida at 6:53 p.m. EST."Today's launch

  • New SBIRS Block 10 Ground System achieves operational acceptance

    Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center and the 460th Space Wing successfully achieved operational acceptance of the Space-Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) Block 10 ground system on Dec. 2. This new ground system consolidates legacy Defense Support Program, SBIRS Highly Elliptical

  • Air Force Ready to Launch WGS-8 Satellite

    The U.S. Air Force and its mission partners are scheduled to launch the eighth Boeing-built Wideband Global SATCOM satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle. Liftoff is scheduled for Dec. 7 from Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,

  • MILSATCOM member helps Air Force team take Inter-Nation Tennis Championship

      1st Lt. Christine Martinez, a project officer in the Space and Missile Systems Center’s MILSATCOM Directorate’s Strategic Branch and a tennis player, joined other teammates who converged on the Italian city of Decimomannu Sardinia for the Headquarters Allied Air Command Ramstein Inter-Nation

 

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