KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – The U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC), in partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), successfully launched the Space Test Program-Houston 10 (STP-H10) mission, which delivered five U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and one NASA experimental science payloads, as a part of a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
The DoD Space Experiments Review Board (SERB) and NASA experiments, representing a collaboration between SSC, NASA, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), hitched a ride aboard SpaceX’s Commercial Resupply Service (CRS)-32 mission. Liftoff occurred on Monday, April 21, at 4:15 am EDT, from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), Kennedy Space Center, Florida, with the experiments traveling inside a Cargo Dragon spacecraft.
The STP-H10 payload was robotically installed on the exterior of the European Space Agency (ESA) Columbus module. This strategic location will provide the experiments with the necessary power and data connections to operate for their one-year mission duration.