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... The 27-hour launch record is just the latest in a series of rapid-fire preparations that began less than a year ago, when SSC, the field command responsible for acquiring and launching space systems, awarded contracts to Millennium Space Systems and Firefly Aerospace. Millennium built the satellite, which will help the service's Space Domain Awareness mission, the manufacturer wrote in a press release, while Firefly built the launch vehicle.

In August, the two companies entered a hot standby phase' where they awaited an alert notification from Space Force that would give them 60 hours to transport the payload from the Millennium facility in El Segundo to Vandenberg 165 miles away, then test, fuel, and mate it to Firefly's Alpha launch vehicle.

That series of tasks usually takes weeks or months to complete, but the Victus Nox team completed it in just 58 hours before standing on alert as they awaited the call to launch. The previous record of 21 days was set in June 2021, when SSC launched a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket carried by a modified airliner. That mission was called Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2)"the general ability to rapidly launch satellites to respond to urgent operational needs is called Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS).

Now that it is deployed in low Earth orbit, the Victus Nox satellite has a deadline to begin operations within 48 hours.

The mission is a major accomplishment for SSC's Space Safari Program Office, which is charged with responding to urgent on-orbit needs, a capability space experts say needs to move faster. ...

@#7

Was not sure whether NW or Funny.

Time will tell...

(and the hamster wheel goes 'round 'n' 'round....)

:)