The Air Force has given missileers at one of its ICBM alert facilities the ability to link to the outside world for mundane work not just their primary mission. The airmen in underground launch control center Juliet-01, part of the ICBM force of Minot AFB, N.D., can use a dedicated system called Netlink to pursue professional military education or graduate degrees and work on various military reports, which officials think will increase their productivity. And, the new LCC Netlink connects to external monitoring equipment to provide the launch crews with “better situational awareness.” The Air Force plans to test the system for 60 days.
United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket is slated to fly its second national security mission in February—nearly six months after its first operational launch and almost a year after it was certified to fly military payloads for the Space Force.
