The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has retired two Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites as of March 8, 2022, ending an extraordinarily successful experiment that demonstrated that a space layer can significantly enhance the Missile Defense System (MDS). On September 25, 2009, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, MDA, NASA, and […]
Missile
Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems Ships The USSF’s GEO Wide Field Of View Satellite For Launch
The U.S. Space Force‘s Wide Field of View spacecraft arrived safely on February 2 to the launch processing facility in Florida, having shipped from Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing (NYSE: BA) company’s headquarters in El Segundo, California. This satellite was procured by the Space Systems Command to serve as testbed for Wide Field of View […]
Raytheon I&S’s Flight Ops System Supports JWST Launch + Interstellar Mission
Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, built and delivered the ground test and flight operations systems in support of the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope and the spacecraft’s interstellar observation mission. The RI&S ground software that “flies” the telescope was used during rigorous testing ahead of the launch. On-orbit, the RI&S ground […]
North Korea Launches ‘Spy Satellite’
North Korea has conducted “another important test” for a reconnaissance satellite, its state media said Sunday, a day after South Korea’s military described the test as a probable ballistic missile launch, this according to a news report in the Korea Herald publication. The North’s National Aerospace Development Administration and the Academy of Defense Science conducted […]
Lockheed Martin Selects Mission Payload Providers For Missile Warning Satellite System
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has selected Raytheon Technologies Corporation (NYSE: RTX) to provide a second mission payload for the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Block 0 missile warning satellite system — also known as NGG. Both Raytheon Technologies and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) are each already on contract to provide one mission payload […]
L3Harris’ Final U.S. Missile Defense Agency Satellite Design Milestone
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) completed the final major design milestone on the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program Phase IIb On-orbit Prototype Demonstration and has already begun building the demonstration satellite. Completing the CDR is the final design milestone ensuring performance, cost and schedule requirements can be met before […]
Valley Tech Systems Awarded Million$$ Contract by Lockheed Martin For MDA’s Next Generation Interceptor
Valley Tech Systems, Inc., a Voyager Space company, has been awarded a subcontract worth up to $94 million for base and future option scope by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for an advanced solid-propulsion subsystem for its Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) contract with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The NGI is a missile defense interceptor […]
L3Harris’ Satellite Design For Missile Tracking Approved By The Space Development Agency
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has successfully completed the final design review for the Space Development Agency’s missile-tracking program — the company will continue with development and integration of four satellites for Tracking Layer Tranche 0 under a $193 million firm, fixed-price contract. L3Harris completed Critical Design Review (CDR) in November and the company will proceed through […]