U.S. Air Force’s SBSS Payload Nearing Integration Milestone

Credit: BALL AEROSPACE
The U.S. Air Force is readying its first space-based sensor designed specifically for the mission of space situational awareness—monitoring other satellites in orbit—for a launch by next April. A Boeing/Ball Aerospace team designed and is assembling the first Space-Based Space Surveillance (SBSS)...

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