Caption: A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 is rolled to the pad readying for launch at Space Launch Complex-41 with Space and Missile Systems Center’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency-2 (AEHF-2) satellite.

The U.S. Air Force delays one of its biggest and most hotly contested space procurements of the year.

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Mike Gruss is the chief content and strategy officer at SpaceNews. From 2013 to 2016 he was a senior reporter at SpaceNews covering military space. Previously, he was editor in chief of Sightline Media Group and worked as a reporter and columnist for...