The Air Force has inactivated the DOD Manned Space Flight Support Office at Patrick AFB, Fla., and shifted the work to a new unit—the Human Space Flight Support—under the 45th Space Wing’s Operations Group at Patrick. A Patrick news release states that the HSFS will “handle most of the tactical, day-to-day operations previously handled by DDMS.” It adds that DDMS “strategic operations” now fall under the Joint Force Component Command for Space at Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
The Space Development Agency added 21 satellites to its nascent data transport network in an Oct. 15 launch, the second mission in 10-month campaign to field 154 operational spacecraft.
