After revising selection criteria six months ago, the Department of the Air Force named six possible headquarters locations for U.S. Space Command on Nov. 19 — Kirtland AFB, New Mexico; Offutt AFB, Nebraska; Patrick AFB, Florida; Peterson AFB, Colorado; Port San Antonio, Texas, and Redstone Army Airfield, Alabama. Four of those selections — Kirtland, Offutt,…

United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on Nov. 13 on an Atlas V launch vehicle. The ULA Atlas V 531 launched the NROL-101 mission from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on Friday at 5:32 p.m. ET. The launch was delayed several times. …

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $258 million contract to develop a prototype payload for the U.S. Space Force’s Evolved Strategic Satcom (ESS) program, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday. ESS will be a military satellite communications system that will interoperate with, and eventually replace, the existing Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) system. According…

SpaceX launched the fourth Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellite on Thursday evening. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 6:24 p.m. ET, carrying GPS III Space Vehicle 04 (SV04) for the U.S. Space Force. The satellite separated at 1 hour and…