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U.S. Space Force Picks Rocket Lab and True Anomaly for VICTUS HAZE

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, April 11th, 2024

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U.S. Space Force Picks Rocket Lab and True Anomaly for VICTUS HAZE

Chief of Space Operations B. Chance Saltzman addresses this week's Space Symposium in Colorado Springs (U.S. Space Force Photo)

U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) said on April 11 that SSC's Space Safari program office, the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit, and the Space Force's SpaceWERX innovation arm have awarded contracts worth $32 million to Colorado-based Rocket Lab [RKLB] and $30 million to Colorado's True Anomaly for the VICTUS HAZE Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) mission to show how the United States could use rendezvous and proximity operations to counter "irresponsible" adversary behavior on orbit. Space Force has said that…

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