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With programs like MTC, Millennium Space Systems is redefining what it means to be an operational prime – rapidly delivering operational small sat constellations on rapid timelines.
By Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing CompanyAI can make logistics data as valuable as intelligence or operational data for mission success
Valuable intelligence insights can be gleaned from logistics or flight-test data when artificial intelligence or machine learning is applied.
While GEOST has made infrared sensors for classified systems in the ones and twos, the new contract will involve building infrared sensors designed to be used in a larger constellation, LightRidge CEO Bill Gattle told Breaking Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens
The “baseline” MEO missile warning/tracking configuration providing global coverage will include “approximately 27 satellites,” said SSC program lead Col. Heather Bogstie.
By Theresa Hitchens
A five-year funding chart included in the strategy shows a steep increase in planned missile warning spending.
By Theresa Hitchens The contract, announced by the company today, will support Space Systems Command’s Program Executive Office for Space Sensing, which is responsible for the service’s missile warning, weather monitoring and “persistent tactical surveillance” programs.
By Theresa Hitchens
SDA plans to purchase and deploy a minimum of 54 space vehicles equipped with infrared sensors from up to three vendors under the new solicitation for Tranche 2 of its Tracking Layer constellation.
By Theresa Hitchens
Modernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
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While SDA plans to use lasers to connect its hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit to each other and to the ground, that technology remains in its infancy.
By Theresa Hitchens
SDA Director Derek Tournear also shed some more light on the agency’s new, highly secretive FOO Fighter program to develop new fire control quality tracking satellites.
By Theresa Hitchens The new “Fire-Control On Orbit-Support-To-The-War Fighter (FOO Fighter or F2)” program “will accelerate the ability to provide new fire control options for the tactical users,” an SDA spokesperson told Breaking Defense. But how does it play with MDA programs?
By Theresa Hitchens The Resilient Missile Warning/Missile Tracking – MEO constellation will be incrementally developed in two- to three-year cycles by Space Systems Command.
By Theresa Hitchens
The 10 satellites, which will be lofted on a reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg SFB to low Earth orbit (LEO), are the first batch of the Tranche 0 constellation, building blocks of America’s resilient space strategy.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The threat is racing to out pace us,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told reporters in a budget pre-briefing on March 10.
By Theresa Hitchens Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems are now on contract to deliver flight-ready prototypes by 2026.
By Theresa Hitchens
In this op-ed, Masao Dahlgren discusses the launch of a forthcoming missile-tracking satellite constellation and what can be learned from it.
By Masao Dahlgren