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  • GPS IIF-7 Satellite Ready for Launch

    The U.S. Air Force is scheduled to launch the seventh Boeing built Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, Aug. 1. The launch window opens at 11:23 pm EDT and will remain open for 18 minutes.This marks the third GPS IIF satellite to be

  • New Mission Selected for Operationally Responsive Space Office

    The SMC's ORS Office, in partnership with SMC's Space Superiority Systems Directorate and Advanced Systems and Development Directorate, is developing a new mission to answer a United States Strategic Command need for Space Situational Awareness of the geosynchronous earth orbit belt. The Defense

  • SMC Awards First-of-its-Kind Hosted Payload Solutions Contract

    The U.S. Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center awarded an indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) program, July 10. Companies competed to be included in one of two lanes: geosynchronous orbit (GEO) hosted opportunities

  • GPS IIF-7 Launch Team to Hold Media Teleconference

    The Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-7 mission launch team will host a media teleconference Friday, July 25 at 9 a.m. PDT/ 10 a.m. MDT/ 11 a.m. CDT/ noon EDT to discuss the upcoming launch scheduled for July 31 from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.The launch

  • Existing tools help users reduce PII breaches

    Members of 24th Air Force are refurbishing an old email tool to help Air Force users reduce breaches of personally identifiable information, or PII.The Digital Signature Enforcement Tool, or DSET, which currently prompts users to provide a digital signature when an email contains an active hyperlink

  • SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 Flights Deemed Successful

    The U.S. Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center declared both the Dec. 3, 2013 and Jan. 6, 2014 flights of the Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle will each count as a successful flight towards Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV)

  • Fort Mac Gate Closure Announced

    The City of Los Angeles will be paving Pacific Ave. between 30th St. and 15th St. on July 5 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. This will require a complete road closure of Pacific Ave. and the closure of Fort Mac's 24th St. gate. As a result of this project, the 30th St. gate will be open starting July 4 and

  • Local Students Team up with Air Force for Competition

    Students from five high schools around the South Bay and Los Angeles area participated in a payload competition held here, celebrating the Space and Missile Systems Center's60th Anniversary. In the three months leading up to the competition, Air Force mentors from SMC regularly visited the schools

  • Bike to Work Day in LA

    The 61st Civil Engineer and Logistics Squadron from Los Angeles Air Force Base sponsors Bike to Work Day in El Segundo, Calif., June 24, 2014. Bike to Work Day is an annual event held on various days in the Spring across the United States and Canada that promotes the bicycle as an option for

  • SBIRS GEO 5, 6 Contract Awarded

    The U.S. Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center awarded a $1.86 billion contract to Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, Calif., for production of the fifth and sixth Space Based Infrared System geosynchronous missile-warning satellites. This contract award realized more

 

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