
El Segundo, Calif.-based ABL Space Systems has received a $15 million contract from the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command’s Assured Access to Space (AATS) office for responsive launch, SSC said on Sept. 18. The small business innovation research award from AATS' Small Launch and Targets Division at Kirtland AFB, N.M., comes under the $60 million Strategic Funding Initiative by SSC and the Air Force Research Laboratory "to develop a launch mission design that incorporates planning for numerous satellites to…