SpaceX plans rapid increase in West Coast launch cadence
SpaceX plans to launch about 50 rockets from Vandenberg Space Force Base in 2024 with a chance of 100 launches in the year 2025.
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SpaceX Yearly Launch Rate at Vandenberg SFB Could Soar to 100 by 2025
“We’re really ramping up Vandenberg to rates that we’ve never seen before and the area hasn’t seen before.”
How These Guardians Avoid Satellite Collisions At 17,000 Miles Per Hour
The Space Force’s 18th Space Defense Squadron at Vandenberg has its eyes on the sky, tracking objects overhead and identifying possible collision risks.
James Webb Space Telescope relies on Central Coast’s infrared innovation
“Without that technology, which doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world, none of this would be possible.”
Rapid ‘Victus Nox’ Launch Is Like Yeager Breaking Sound Barrier
Likening the record-breaking trek from order to launch of a satellite from Vandenberg SFB to Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier in 1947, Chief of […]
Adient Aerospace’s Expansion Will Land Manufacturing Plant in Santa Maria
Tony Guy, who began with C&D Aerospace in Santa Maria 31 years ago, now leads a firm ramping up to fill the Skyway Drive facility.
UCSB receives federal funding to fuel semiconductor development
UC Santa Barbara will soon be playing a key role in helping the United States expand its semiconductor manufacturing and development, making the country far […]
40 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Discovery Makes its Public Debut
The Department of Defense planned to fly space shuttles from Vandenberg’s Space Launch Complex-6 on military polar orbital missions, beginning with STS-62A in 1986.
