Raytheon said Tuesday that it had delivered the first experimental Distributed Common Ground System to Langley AFB, Va. This system will allow worldwide distribution of ISR data “in a significantly shorter amount of time.” The idea is to shorten the time required to complete a cycle of the “kill chain.”
NASA, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance are all preparing to launch their next-gen rockets from Florida’s Space Coast, two of them before the year is out. One is expected to liberate the U.S. launch enterprise from its reliance on Russian-made RD-180 engines, while all three rockets could eventually carry astronaut crews.