USSF Says SpaceX Falcon 9 Spacecraft Expected to Complete Design Validation by July Written 29 April 2020

Spaceflight Now reports that the US Space Force (USSF) “expects to complete design validation on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket by July, ahead of the launch of the military’s first high-priority national security mission on the heavy-lifter late this year.” The mission, called USSF-44, involves the launch of “two payloads into a circular geosynchronous orbit more than 22,000 miles above the equator.” One of the two USSF-44 mission payloads is a TETRA 1 microsatellite built by Millennium Space Systems. Col. Robert Bongiovi “said the TETRA 1 microsatellite was created to ‘prototype missions and tactics, techniques and procedures in and around geosynchronous Earth orbit.’”
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