RTX Dropped From Space Force’s MEO-Based Missile Tracking

United Launch Alliance Atlas V

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the sixth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite launches from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 4, 2022.

Credit: U.S. Air Force
RTX is no longer building satellites in the first phase of the U.S. Space Force’s missile-tracking satellite constellation, leaving Millennium Space Systems as the sole provider until the next development phase. The two vendors were on contract to build nine satellites under the service’s resilient...
Vivienne Machi

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

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