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  • Space and Missile Systems Center Executive Honored by Women in Defense

    The Women in Defense Greater Los Angeles Chapter honored Ms. Joy White, SMC director of contracting, with its Service to the Flag - Government/Military Award at its annual White Party on August 15.White was recognized by the group for her contracting leadership and her 30 years of dedicated service

  • Space and Missile Systems Center Commander Visits SpaceX

    On August 7, Lt. Gen. Sam Greaves, commander of Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center, met with Ms. Gwynne Shotwell, president of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., and received an update on activities at SpaceX's facility in Hawthorne, Calif.SpaceX is currently working with

  • General Hyten takes control of AFSPC

    General John E. Hyten became the 16th commander of Air Force Space Command, in a change-of-command ceremony here today, replacing General William L. Shelton. General Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force Chief of Staff, presided over the ceremony. General Hyten attended Harvard University on an Air Force

  • LAAFB Flag Football Champions Crowned

    The Space and Missile Systems Center's Remote Sensing Systems directorate's team trounced Aerospace, 41-19, in the Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., flag football playoffs for the championship title Aug 14, 2014. (Photos by Joe Juarez)

  • SMC Commander Visits SpaceX

    U. S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Sam Greaves, Space and Missile Systems Center commander, meets with Gwynne Shotwell, president of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., before a tour of SpaceX's Hawthorne, Calif., facility Aug. 7, 2014. (U.S. Air Force photo by Sarah Corrice)

  • GPS IIF-7 Successfully Launched from Cape Canaveral AFS

    The U.S. Air Force launched the seventh Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite from Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. at 11:23 p.m. EDT, Aug. 1."Today we launched the third GPS IIF satellite in 2014, and we have one more satellite to launch this year. This is the most aggressive launch campaign

  • GPS II-F 7 Rolls Out for Launch

    An ULA Atlas V rolls out to Cape Canaveral AFS' Space Launch Complex-41 with GPSII-F7 aboard, July 31. The launch is set for Aug. 1 at 11:23 p.m. EDT. GPS IIF-7 is the 7th in a series of next generation GPS satellites and the 3rd GPS IIF to be launched in 2014. It will join a worldwide timing and

  • 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

 

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