Actually, Florida Today reported July 29 that NASA decided it needed more time for testing of its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, slated to launch aboard an Atlas V in December, so it’s now shooting for February 2009. That left the window open for the Air Force-Boeing Orbital Launch Vehicle, the X-37B, which also will launch via an Atlas V. The launch of the military spaceplane, according to a July 30 blog on Wired, is now set for November at Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. When the Air Force announced the program in 2006, it said thefirst couple of flights would be used to demonstrate that the reusable spacecraft can reach orbit and return to Earth. After that, the service would entrust it with payloads.
NORTHCOM’s Budget Priority: Longer Warning Time
April 14, 2021
Gen. Glen D. VanHerck's top priorities in the upcoming budget are domain awareness in the form of farther-seeing over-the-horizon radars, followed by submarine detection capabilities and joint all-domain command and control, the commander of U.S. Northern Command told members of the House Armed Services Committee on April 14. Before building…