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Air Force Eyes More Frequent, Predictable Launches For Satellites

By Marc Selinger

Friday, September 9th, 2016

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The Air Force, which is trying to shift away from large satellites and field smaller, more numerous ones instead, plans to create a more frequent and predictable launch schedule to accommodate that change.Instead of conducting launches “on demand,” as the Air Force does now, “we want to get to a freight-train-to-space model … where we have regularly scheduled launches to specific orbital regimes,” said Brig. Gen. Stephen Whiting, director of integrated air, space, cyberspace and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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