News - Tag unmanned

Nov. 13, 2022
X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle concludes 6th successful mission

The U.S. Space Force’s unmanned, reusable spaceplane, X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-6, successfully deorbited and landed after completing a 908-day mission.
July 31, 2020
Around the Air Force: Skyborg Contracts Awarded, Tech Training Streamlined, Hurricane Hunters

Today’s look Around the Air Force highlights new contracts awarded to industry for the Skyborg Vanguard Program, a new program bypassing traditional tech school for technical training to take place at an Airman's first duty station and Hurricane Hunters track a storm in the Pacific. (Hosted by
July 24, 2020
AFLCMC awards Skyborg contract

These initial awards will establish a vendor pool that will continue to compete for up to $400 million in subsequent delivery orders in support of the Skyborg Vanguard Program.
Feb. 26, 2019
Wide area detection among eight finalists for AFIMSC’s inaugural ‘Innovation Rodeo’

John Shackell, a force protection business consultant with the Air Force Security Forces Center at JBSA-Lackland, once had an idea “before its time.”
Aug. 21, 2018
Global Hawk makes historic first landing at Red Flag-Alaska

An RQ-4 Global Hawk, assigned to Beale Air Force Base, California, landed at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, for Red Flag-Alaska 18-3, Aug. 16.
July 5, 2018
301st Rescue Squadron supports SpaceX resupply rocket launch

Airmen from the 301st Rescue Squadron supported the successful launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket June 29, 2018. The launch of the Falcon 9 marked its fifteenth commercial resupply services mission lifting off at 5:42:42 a.m. EDT, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,
Nov. 22, 2017
Air Force Tech Report: X-37B

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (AFNS) – The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is the Air Force's experimental test program to demonstrate space technologies. Learn how it gets into orbit and some of the features that helps this unmanned space platform boldly go where few have gone before.Related links:- X-37B
Feb. 24, 2015
AF marks first RQ-4 non-military base landing

A remotely piloted U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk aircraft landed Feb. 22, at Avalon Airport in Victoria, Australia, marking this the first time a high-altitude asset has flown into a non-military air base to be viewed by the general public.