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ULA conducts eighth mission of the year with Delta IV flight of AFSPC-4 - SpaceFlight Insider
Orbital-Built Geosynchronous Satellites Launched for U.S. Air Force | Business Wire
The 45th Space Wing supported a successful United Launch Alliance Delta IV vehicle carrying Air Force Space Command mission assets for the Air Force July 28. The AFSPC-4 mission payload included two satellites for the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, or GSSAP, and an Air Force Research Laboratory experimental satellite.
two GSSAP spacecraft and the AFRL ANGELS experimental spacecraft launched on the same United Launch Alliance Delta IV booster out of Cape Canaveral, Florida. The missions and objectives are distinctly different.
The two operational satellites are part of the Air Force's Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, or GSSAP. The GSSAP satellites will provide U.S. Strategic Command with space situational awareness data allowing for more accurate tracking and characterization of man-made orbiting objects.
The experimental satellite program, known as Automated Navigation and Guidance Experiment for Local Space, or ANGELS, is led by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate headquartered at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.
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