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2017 February 14 - . 11:30 GMT - . Launch Site: Point Arguello.
Launch Platform: Sub.
LV Family: Trident.
Launch Vehicle: Trident D-5.
RV x 8? - . Nation: USA. Apogee: 1,000 km (600 mi). Test mission. Impacted in Wake Island..
RV x 8? - . Nation: USA. Apogee: 1,000 km (600 mi). Test mission. Impacted in Wake Island..
"descriptive" artice - https://navaltoday.com/2017/02/17/us-navy-carries-out-trident-ii-d5-missile-testing/
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2017 February 15 - . Launch Site: Point Arguello.
Launch Platform: Sub.
LV Family: Trident.
Launch Vehicle: Trident D-5.
RV x 8? - . Nation: USA. Apogee: 1,000 km (600 mi). Test mission. Impacted in Wake Island..
"descriptive" artice - https://navaltoday.com/2017/02/17/us-navy-carries-out-trident-ii-d5-missile-testing/
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2017 February 16 - . Launch Site: Point Arguello.
Launch Platform: Sub.
LV Family: Trident.
Launch Vehicle: Trident D-5.
RV x 8? - . Nation: USA. Apogee: 1,000 km (600 mi). Test mission. Impacted in Wake Island..
"descriptive" artice - https://navaltoday.com/2017/02/17/us-navy-carries-out-trident-ii-d5-missile-testing/
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Side Note: https://carllavo.blogspot.com/2017/10/trident-ii-d-5-missile-system-life.html
2017 September 28
"From now on, every missile that we fly will be a D-5 life-extended missile with a new guidance subsystem and a new set of missile electronics.”
Although when most people think of the Trident life extension, they think of the missile, much of the work his office has been doing is on the shipboard systems, “which, I think, is much more complicated,” he said.
That work is upgrading fire control, communications and navigation systems and the launch tubes, he said."
"The admiral added that his office, “in cooperation with” the Energy Department, is working on life extension of the Tridents’ nuclear warheads, which also will arm the replacement submarines. And he is supervising tests of future missile launch tubes at ground test facilities at China Lake, Calif., and Cape Canaveral, Fla., that will enable production of the launch tubes in Columbia and Dreadnaught."
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Side Note: https://news.usni.org/2017/11/03/navy-conducts-flight-test-support-conventional-prompt-strike-ohio-class-boomers
2017 November 03 (test conducdted October 30)
"Strategic Systems Program (SSP) Director Vice Adm. Terry Benedict said on Nov. 2 that “I’m very proud to report that at 0300 on Monday night SSP flew from Hawaii [Pacific Missile Range Facility] … the first conventional prompt strike missile for the United States Navy in the form factor that would eventually, could eventually be utilized if leadership chooses to do so in an Ohio-class tube. It’s a monumental achievement.”"
Side Note: https://news.clearancejobs.com/2018/02/06/lockheed-martin-awarded-trident-ii-missile-contract-dod-daily-contracts-2/
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2018 Feb 06
Lockheed Martin Awarded Trident II Missile Contract – DoD Daily Contracts
"Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., Sunnyvale, California is being awarded $28,732,771 for cost-plus-fixed-fee modification P00006 to exercise options under a previously awarded and announced contract (N00030-17-C-0100) for Trident II (D5) missile deployed system support. The work will be performed in Sunnyvale, California (71.81 percent); Cape Canaveral, Florida (9.14 percent); Clearwater, Florida (4.68 percent); Denver, Colorado (4.68 percent); Titusville, Florida (3.62 percent); and other various locations (less than 1.00 percent each; 6.07 percent total), and work is expected to be completed Sept. 30, 2020. Fiscal 2018 weapons procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $26,779,236; and fiscal 2018 operation and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,953,535 are being obligated on this award, $1,953,535 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Strategic Systems Programs, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity."
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