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Air Force Anticipates Resistance Toward Automated Launch Flight Safety System

Pat Host

Monday, May 4th, 2015

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Air Force Anticipates Resistance Toward Automated Launch Flight Safety System

A Delta IV rocket lifts GPS IIF-6 into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., May 16, 2014. Photo: ULA.

The Air Force is anticipating customer resistance toward its use of automated flight safety systems at its space launch ranges, according to a key official.“(Customers) have their system, they have their budget, they’re not going to want to make that leap,” Air Force Spacelift Range and Network System Division Chief Col. Janet Grondin said Friday at a Peter Huessy breakfast series event on Capitol Hill.Grondin called resistance from “a few” customers the Air Force’s “biggest challenge” with moving to automated…

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