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May 5, 2021
Guardian’s First Launch as Program Manager

Guardians and Airmen from the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Enterprise team successfully launched an experimental research payload for the Air Force Research Laboratory March 3, 2021, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
May 5, 2021
NATO SACT visits USSPACECOM

French Air Force Gen. Andre Lanata, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, visited U.S. Space Command headquarters May 4.
May 5, 2021
MINUTEMAN III TEST LAUNCH ABORTS PRIOR TO LAUNCH

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile test launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, experienced a ground abort prior to launch.The cause of the ground abort is currently under investigation and Air Force Global Strike Command is assessing the potential to reschedule
May 4, 2021
USSPACECOM tracking Chinese rocket; 18th SPCS providing updates to Space-track.org

U.S. Space Command is aware of and tracking the location of the Chinese Long March 5B in space, but its exact entry point into the Earth’s atmosphere cannot be pinpointed until within hours of its reentry, which is expected around May 8.
May 4, 2021
Secretary of Defense visits Peterson Air Force Base

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was in Colorado to meet with U.S. Army Gen. James Dickinson and others senior leaders across U.S. Space Command's Joint Task Force-Space Defense and Combined Force Space Component Command to discuss the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)'s space strategy, deterrence

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Guardian’s First Launch as Program Manager

NATO SACT visits USSPACECOM

MINUTEMAN III TEST LAUNCH ABORTS PRIOR TO LAUNCH

USSPACECOM tracking Chinese rocket; 18th SPCS providing updates to Space-track.org

Secretary of Defense visits Peterson Air Force Base