In 2020, Air Force Plans To Launch Nine Small Space Missions Written 19 December 2019

Space News reports that the Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center “is preparing to launch nine missions in 2020, more [than] doubling the number of launches conducted in 2019.” The missions will include a “National Reconnaissance mission, NROL-129” aboard “a Northrop Grumman Minotaur 4 launch vehicle” and an “Air Force Research Lab experimental payload” on a “Rocket Lab Electron vehicle,” among others. Chief of the Small Launch and Targets Division Lt. Col. Ryan Rose said, “It will be a busy year,” while indicating that the Air Force is also working on “two unidentified missions” which are “still being negotiated.”
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