https://spacewatch.global/tag/dr-walt-lauderdale/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:37:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/dr-walt-lauderdale/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2025/08/u-s-space-force-and-u-s-air-force-successfully-launch-x-37b-orbital-test-vehicle/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=67310 The U.S. Space Force’s NSSL program and SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket have launched the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle into orbit on August 21 from Launch Complex (LC)-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The mission, carrying the U.S. Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) spacecraft, lifted off on schedule at 11:50 p.m. EST (4:50 a.m. GMT). ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2025/04/spacex-to-launch-us-space-forces-nssl-gps-iii-7-mission-from-florida/ Tue, 08 Apr 2025 06:00:04 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=64765 The USSF SSC and SpOC have announced the NSSL GPS III-7 mission launch. The mission, with the Space Vehicle 08 (SV-08), will launch aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, no earlier than the end of May 2025.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2024/04/ssc-successfully-launches-wsf-m-weather-satellite/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:00:01 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=54697 Space Systems Command (SSC) and its mission partners have successfully launched the United States Space Force (USSF)-62 Weather System Follow–on–Microwave (WSF-M) satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 (SLC-4) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in northern Santa Barbara County, California. This mission brings new capabilities to the US and its allies by placing the first satellite of two new generations of operational environmental monitoring satellites into orbit.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2024/02/space-systems-command-launches-six-satellites-aboard-falcon-9/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 07:00:13 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=53671 The US Space Systems Command (SSC) and its mission partners have successfully launched the U.S. Space Force (USSF)-124 mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket today at 5:30 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.  Furthermore, the satellites for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Space Development Agency (SDA) were safely delivered to their intended orbit.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/12/space-systems-command-and-spacex-launch-ussfs-nssl-falcon-heavy-mission/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 07:00:36 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=53012 Space Systems Command (SSC) and SpaceX have successfully launched the U.S. Space Force (USSF)-52 mission using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex (LC)-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Falcon Heavy carried the seventh mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, an experimental test program to demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, unmanned space test platform for the USSF.]]>