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U.S. Space Force Launches Falcon Heavy with Boeing and Northrop Grumman Satellites

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, January 17th, 2023

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U.S. Space Force Launches Falcon Heavy with Boeing and Northrop Grumman Satellites

Northrop Grumman's ESPAStar satellite bus (Northrop Grumman)

U.S. Space Force (USSF) said that a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lofted the Boeing [BA] Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM (CBAS)-2 and Northrop Grumman [NOC] Long Duration Propulsive ESPA (LDPE)-3A communications satellites into orbit on Jan. 15 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The launch for the USSF-67 mission was the first by SpaceX under the Space Force’s National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 2 contract, according to the Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC). The first CBAS geosynchronous Earth orbit…

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