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Forecast Launch of First Six Epoch 1s Delayed Until Fiscal 2027

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

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Forecast Launch of First Six Epoch 1s Delayed Until Fiscal 2027

Pictured is a Boeing Millenium Space Systems graphic depiction of an Epoch 1 satellite from a posting on Space Systems Command's website last October.

While Boeing's [BA] Millenium Space Systems was to deliver the first six Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Epoch 1 missile warning satellites to U.S. Space Force for launch by the end of fiscal 2026, the launch has moved to fiscal 2027. "We had some challenges on the design maturation and a little bit of supply chain--I'm still wringing through some things there," Space Force Col. Robert Davis, Space Systems Command's (SSC) program executive officer for space sensing, told a Mitchell Institute…

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