Vivienne Machi is the military space editor for Aviation Week. She has written about U.S. and international military and space tech for nearly a decade from Los Angeles, Washington and Stuttgart, Germany. Her byline has appeared in outlets including Defense News, Via Satellite, Foreign Policy, Defense Daily, National Defense Magazine and Business Insider.
SpaceX successfully launched the eighth of 10 GPS III satellites for the U.S. Space Force May 30 at 1:37 p.m. EDT on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida.