Ronald Sega, Air Force undersecretary and DOD Executive Agent for Space, announced Friday at AFA’s Space Symposium in Los Angeles that the first Space-Based Infrared System Highly Elliptical Orbit-1 payload successfully passed its initial early on-orbit checkout. SBIRS is the...
The Air Force had successfully launched 47 consecutive military payloads, noted Lt. Gen. Mike Hamel, commander of Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center. Speaking Friday at AFA’s Space Symposium, Hamel said that another launch was scheduled for...
Air Force Space Command is at a turning point and “I want to turn back the clock to the 80s,” Gen. Kevin Chilton, head of Air Force Space Command, told attendees Friday at AFA’s Space Symposium in Los Angeles. Chilton...
Gen. Kevin Chilton, boss of Air Force Space Command, has several priorities, including the need to preserve and expand the ability to deliver space effects and provide safe and secure strategic deterrence. He told attendees Friday at AFA’s Los Angeles...
The Air Force plans to launch in Fiscal 2008 an unmanned Orbital Test Vehicle—building on work from NASA’s defunct X-37 technology demonstrator. Service officials announced the effort Nov. 17, saying USAF would proceed with “full-scale development and on-orbit testing of...
The 8th Special Operations Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Fla., on Nov. 16 received its first operational CV-22 Osprey, ushering in a new era for Air Force SOF. The unit will get five of the first nine production Ospreys, giving the...
Air Force Special Operations Command reactivated the 1st Special Operations Wing at a Hurlburt Field, Fla., ceremony Nov. 16, the day Hurlburt received its first CV-22 Osprey. AFSOC commander, Lt. Gen. Michael Wooley, called the redesignation of 16th SOW to...
Brian Arnold, vice president of strategic systems for Raytheon, said Friday at AFA’s Los Angeles Space Symposium that during the current run of successful space launches, there also have been no failures of satellites on orbit. Arnold, a retired Air...
Lt. Gen. Robert Kehler told attendees Friday at AFA’s Los Angeles space symposium that operationally responsive space is something “we want across the board,” and “we need to focus more on timely and targeted needs.” Driving ORS is the need...
Maj. Gen. William Shelton, commander of Air Force Space Command’s 14th Air Force—provider of space assets to combatant commanders—reminded attendees Friday at AFA’s Los Angeles Space Symposium that US national security is “critically dependent on space.” Shelton said US enemies...
A second Air Force unit is experiencing the “new” F-15E Strike Eagle, with the addition of the Small Diameter Bomb and Suite 5 hardware and software upgrades. The 391st Fighter Squadron at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, is joining the 494th...
A Nov. 15 Air Force Reserve Command news release identified the first airmen to complete the new C-5 Formal Training Unit program at Kelly Field, Lackland AFB, Tex.—flight engineer SrA. Raymond Montanino and pilots 1st Lt. Paul Sloan and 2nd...
Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz, vice commander of Air Force Space Command, received the Thomas D. White Space Trophy during AFA’s National Space Symposium in Los Angeles last week. The National Geographic Society sponsored the trophy, which is named after the...
Nov. 16, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 16 6 22 CAS/Armed Recon 32 42 74 Airlift 140 140 Air refueling 35 35 Total 48 48 175 271 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance