Chirp Turned On, Operating For USAF

The U.S. Air Force’s new Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (Chirp) has been turned on and is operating as expected, says Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, who oversees the service’s Space and Missiles Center. Chirp, a staring focal plane IR detector, was built by SAIC as an earlier effort by SMC to...

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