1st Space Launch Squadron

July 2018 July 2018 1st Space Launch Squadron center|60px Delta 6920-10 launch with ROSAT.jpg A Delta II launch from Cape Canaveral AFS 1990–2009 United States USA Squadron Space launch Air Force Space Command Air Force Outstanding Unit Award https://www.dafhistory.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/433523/1-space-launch-squadron-afspc/ Robertson Patsy Factsheet 1 Space Launch Squadron (AFSPC) 9 September 2008 Air Force Historical Research Agency 16 July 2018 165px 1st Space Launch Squadron emblem (approved 1 July 1992) The United States Air Force's 1st Space Launch Squadron was a space launch unit located at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. It was responsible for USAF Delta II launches from its activation in October 1990 to its inactivation in August 2009.No. 1: With the record to prove it https://www.afspc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/250739/no-1-with-the-record-to-prove-it/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220621184029/https://www.afspc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/250739/no-1-with-the-record-to-prove-it/ dead 21 June 2022 Air Force Space Command 20 November 2022 History Air Force launch operations were transferred from Air Force Systems Command to Air Force Space Command in the early 1990s. Phase I of the Launch Transfer Plan began on 1 October 1990, with the redesignation of the Eastern and Western Space and Missile Centers, as the 30th and 45th Space Wings. http://www.patrick.af.mil/heritage/Cape/Capefram.htm Cleary Mark C. The Cape: Military Space Operations 1971–1992 45th Space Wing History Office dead https://web.archive.org/web/20040627094614/https://www.patrick.af.mil/heritage/Cape/Capefram.htm 27 June 2004 16 July 2018 The 1st Space Launch Squadron was activated on 1 October 1990, and became Air Force Space Command's first Delta II launch squadron.World Airpower Journal. (1992). US Air Force Air Power Directory. Aerospace Publishing: London, UK. 1-880588-01-3 Its final launch of a Delta II was on 17 August 2009. Its final launch successfully placed the USA-206, or GPS IIR-21(M) navigation satellite into orbit.http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d343/ Bittersweet launch ends several chapters of history Ray Justin 17 August 2009 Spaceflight Now 19 August 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090915231220/http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d343/ 15 September 2009 live The squadron was inactivated on 30 September.Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Air Force Organization Change Status Report, September 2009, Maxwell AFB, AL Lineage Constituted as the 1st Space Launch Squadron on 11 September 1990 Activated on 1 October 1990 Inactivated on 30 September 2009 Assignments Eastern Space and Missile Center, 1 October 1990 45th Operations Group, 12 November 1991 45th Launch Group, 1 December 2003 – 30 September 2009 Stations Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 1 October 1990 – 30 September 2009 Space Launch Vehicles Delta II, 1990–2009 References Notes 40em External links United States Air Force: Patrick Air Force Base https://web.archive.org/web/20201109170639/https://www.patrick.spaceforce.mil/ 9 November 2020 0001 Space Launch 0001