DOD Preps For Next Set Of MEO-Based Missile-Tracking Systems

ULA rocket

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the sixth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO-6) satellite, launching from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral SFS.

Credit: U.S. Space Force
LOS ANGELES—As the U.S. Space Force prepares to procure its next block of satellites for a future constellation providing missile tracking and missile warning from medium Earth orbit (MEO), it looks to industry to produce critical technology including focal plane arrays, optical crosslinks and...
Vivienne Machi

Vivienne Machi is the military space editor for Aviation Week based in Los Angeles.

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