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A Lockheed Martin-built geosynchronous Earth orbit satellite designed to provide missile warning data to the U.S. Air Force has transmitted its first images from its orbit approximately 22,000 miles above the equator. Lockheed said Wednesday the third Space Based Infrared System satellite will work to help the Air Force distribute missile warning data to the U.S. […] More
The U.S. Air Force has pushed back to Friday the launch of a Lockheed Martin-built missile warning satellite due to range and technical issues, Space News reported Thursday. The Space-Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight 3 satellite was scheduled to take off Thursday from Cape Canaveral in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket but was delayed due […] More
The U.S. Air Force is scheduled to launch a Lockheed Martin-built missile warning satellite Thursday onboard a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Space-Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight 3 satellite will work to perform surveillance operations in support of missile warning and defense, battlespace awareness and technical intelligence missions, Lockheed said Tuesday. The […] More
Lockheed Martin has secured a $45 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force for logistics, sustainment and combined task force support services to the Space-Based Infrared System. The Defense Department said Friday Lockheed’s space systems business will conduct studies on the SBIRS CLS and legacy sustainment baseline system for the satellite program’s operational ground systems assets. DoD noted the […] More
Lockheed Martin has chosen Microsemi to supply master reference oscillators for integration into the next two Space Based Infrared System satellites for the U.S. Air Force. Microsemi said Wednesday it will start to deliver production models of the company’s master reference oscillators that include discrete devices and radiation-tolerant field programmable gate arrays to Lockheed, the SBIRS’ prime contractor, in late 2016. SBIRS is […] More
Lockheed Martin plans to open access to data from the company-built Space Based Infrared System in efforts to foster the development of remote sensing tools for military and civilian applications. The company said Wednesday the infrared data will be made available to government, commercial and academic organizations through the U.S. Air Force‘s data utilization laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. “By giving […] More
Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin‘s space systems segment, has said the company has adopted 3D printing technology and works to accelerate satellite development time by 40 percent in an effort to reduce costs, Reuters reported Tuesday. Ambrose told Reuters reporter Andrea Shalal in an interview that he expects Lockheed to develop a capability that […] More
The U.S. Air Force‘s Remote Sensing Systems Directorate has completed the 14-day Block 10 integrated test and evaluation readiness soak on the Space Based Infrared System‘s ground segment, the service branch reported Jan. 21. The directorate conducted the test at Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado beginning Jan. 5 to check the system’s readiness and […] More
Lockheed Martin has completed development and integration work on the Space-Based Infrared System‘s Increment 2 ground station and will move forward to certification tests for the U.S. Air Force space program. The company said Monday Increment 2 will command the combined infrared surveillance operations of the Defense Support Program, SBIRS geosynchronous orbit satellites and highly elliptical orbit payloads. “The transition […] More
Lockheed Martin has selected Northrop Grumman‘s Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit to bring attitude control and sensor stabilization functions to the U.S. Air Force‘s fifth Space-Based Infrared System geosynchronous Earth orbit satellite. Bob Mehltretter, vice president of navigation and positioning systems at Northrop’s electronic systems sector, said Tuesday that the award continues his company’s support for the SBIRS program, with Lockheed as […] More
Lockheed Martin has tasked Northrop Grumman to provide sensor payloads for the fifth and sixth geosynchronous Earth orbit satellites in the U.S. Air Force‘s Space Based Infrared System under a $422 million subcontract. “Northrop Grumman looks forward to joining our partner and prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, to produce the GEO-5/6 IR payloads,” Anne Ostroff, vice president of Northrop’s military and civil […] More
The Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman team has delivered to the U.S. Air Force the payload for the next geosynchronous Earth orbit satellite of the Space Based Infrared System. SBIRS’ prime contractor Lockheed said Wednesday that the payload is fitted with a scanning sensor to perform wide-area surveillance of missile launch operations and a staring sensor to focus on smaller areas […] More
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