Northrop Grumman says its final Defense Support Program satellite—DSP flight 23—is well on its way toward launch with the recent mating of the satellite and its launch vehicle payload adapter. The DSP is slated to launch April 1 aboard a Boeing Delta IV heavy evolved expendable launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla.
The Air Force has finished resurrecting a B-1B Lancer, completing a yearslong process to transform a bomber that had been stored for parts in the Arizona desert into the new flagship of the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.