The funds will continue the Pentagon's efforts to explore short-notice small satellite launch capabilities through 2024 and 2025.
This still from a Vandenberg Space Force Base video shows a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket carrying the TacRL-2 satellite being loaded onto a Stargazer carrier plane for a June 13, 2021 launch.launch aboard a Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket
, possibly within a few months. Firefly won the contract for the mission in September last year, alongside satellite manufacturer and Boeing subsidiary Millennium Space Systems. The pair were given eight months to prepare launch services and ground systems, and will be given just twenty-four hours notice to launch the payload to orbit.
USSF's TacRL-2 press release states that"Tactically Responsive Launch is the first step toward the USSF acquiring a tactical space mobility and logistics capability to support combatant command's future requirements for tactical spacepower." The $60 million budget request for dedicated funds to the project ensures its next launch won't be its last, with $30 million bookmarked for 2024, and $30 million for 2025.
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