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The installation was renamed Onizuka Air Force Station on 24 July 1986, in honor of Col. Ellison Onizuka, who lost his life in the Space Shuttle Challenger accident. [ 1 ] The 21st Space Operations Squadron was activated on 1 October 1991, and within one year, absorbed the roles of the 2nd Satellite Tracking Group and the 1999th Communications ...
By 1979, the Air Force Satellite Test Center was renamed the Air Force Satellite Control Facility. In 1986 the base was renamed [ 2 ] in honor of Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Ellison S. Onizuka , an astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986.
Ellison Onizuka Satellite Operations Facility (EOSOF) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California – Secondary C2 Node. The Satellite Control Network maintains a number of tracking stations, which are used to track (primarily) US government agency & military satellites, as well as receive and process telemetry and send commands to these satellites.
The Air Force Satellite Control Facility (AFSCF) was originally activated at Los Angeles AFS, California on 18 Jun 1965. [1] It was first assigned to the Space Systems Division of Air Force Systems Command , with later moves under the Space and Missile Systems Organization, and Space Division organizations.
Jul. 18—Aerospace technology company Northrop Grumman has named its NG-16 Cygnus spacecraft in honor of Hawaii astronaut Ellison Onizuka, who was one of seven crew members killed in the Space ...
Ellison Shoji Onizuka (Japanese: エリソン・ショージ・オニヅカ, 鬼塚 承次, Hepburn: Onizuka Shōji, June 24, 1946 – January 28, 1986) was an American astronaut, engineer, and U.S. Air Force flight test engineer from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C.
A video released as part of an ongoing lawsuit against Southern California Edison, the electrical utility for Los Angeles, appears to show what a law firm says is the start of the deadly Eaton Fire.
The owner of an oil field in Los Angeles County is suing the state of California over a law that will require it to stop production and plug its wells or face costly fines. Inglewood Oil Field ...