Air Force to make DMSP-20 decision in mid-September

By Courtney Albon / August 25, 2016 at 3:17 PM
The Air Force will likely not make a decision about whether to pursue launching the last legacy Defense Meteorological Satellite Program space vehicle until after a meeting next month with the Joint Requirements Oversight Committee. Winston Beauchamp, staff director for the principal Defense Department space adviser, told a small group of reporters in an Aug. 24 interview at the Pentagon that although the service had planned to decide whether to resume disposition of the last DMSP satellite, DMSP-20, by Sept...

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