Air and Space Forces Magazine — The four operations centers would cost $250 million each and be built at Kirtland Air Force Base, Redstone Arsenal, Schriever Space Force Base, and Grand Forks Air Force Base.

SpaceNews — Space Systems Command and Space Launch Delta 45 played pivotal roles for the launch from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. SV-10 caps Lockheed Martin-built series as SpaceX continues to absorb missions shifted from ULA.

Air and Space Forces Magazine — During Space Symposium, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said the service recently issued a baseline indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for space-based air moving target indication to multiple providers.

U.S. Space Force — Purdy emphasized the importance of accelerating acquisition models, noting that space acquisition processes have pivoted from planning to doing and are keenly focused on delivering integrated, resilient warfighting capabilities.

SpaceNews — At Space Symposium, Michael Kratsios, director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), announced a policy directing NASA, the Pentagon, and the Department of Energy to develop space nuclear power systems that could launch as soon as 2028.

SpaceNews — Introduced at Space Symposium, the “Future Operating Environment” and “Objective Force” visions offer insight into how the Space Force expects on-orbit threats and enabling technology to evolve over the next 15 years and a roadmap for how it will meet that change.

At Space Symposium, Aerospace’s Nexus Podcast hosted panelists from Air Force Research Laboratory and Redwire Space to discuss Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) operations.

SpaceNews — “I look for Aerospace to be in that space between government and the private sector, where we are leveraging and harnessing what the private sector is bringing to the table so that we can accelerate what the nation needs in space to keep us ahead on the space front,” said CEO Tanya Pemberton.

SpaceNews — “[The industrial base] still has challenges in building at large scale, the high reliability, high precision valves we need for satellites,” said Jamie Morin, VP of defense strategic space at Aerospace. “We still have a fragile, solid rocket motor industrial base. We still have key challenges in microelectronics for space at scale.”

Undark — Aerospace’s Martin Ross said there is not yet an accounting of before-launch emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from venting or tests.