Radomes provide strategic and theater missile warning for the United States and its international allies, at Buckley Space Force Base, Colo. Space Delta 4, the missile warning Delta, contributes heavily to missile defense, space domain awareness, battlespace awareness and technical intelligence missions in support of combatant commanders. Senior Airman Danielle McBride/USSF
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2023 USAF & USSF Almanac: Installations
June 22, 2023
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The Marine Corps has accepted six F-35B jets with ballast rather than radars in their nose cones—and the Air Force and Navy will have to do likewise later this year.
The Space Development Agency last year quietly canceled plans to launch 11 satellites mean to conduct communications experiments in low-Earth orbit, Air & Space Forces Magazine has learned.
The Space Force selected Boeing to extend the life of its narrowband satellite communications program, awarding the company $2 billion to build two satellites.
The Pentagon is asking to shift money from the Navy’s E-2D Hawkeye and classified Air Force accounts to fund a $1.55 billion spending plan for its revived E-7 Wedgetail program in fiscal 2027, according to budget amendments submitted to Congress last week.
After four years leading the Space Rapid Capabilities Office, Kelly Hammett was named the new executive director of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center last week.
Flight test operations at Edwards Air Force Base resumed on June 22, a week after a devastating B-52H Stratofortress crash that killed eight crew members and temporarily closed the base’s airfield. Base spokesman Chase Kohler said U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School operations also resumed June 22. The airfield, which…
The Space Force started its second live Tactically Responsive Space mission June 19, working with a contractor to launch a satellite to low-Earth orbit in less than 17 hours. That spacecraft will now conduct a series of maneuver demonstrations with another vehicle.
With Space Force leaders making the case that the service must grow to meet the demand of new threats, a recent workshop with 50 experts studied how those threats could impact American civilian and military capabilities as they escalate in severity and how the U.S. might respond to them.
The Qatari-gifted aircraft that will serve as a “bridge” Air Force One will begin the commissioning flights needed to officially join the presidential airlift fleet, following its unveiling at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on June 19.
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