Search Results for: "Air Force Space and Missile System Center"
Powerful Payload Pumps Up SBIRS.
Relevance Score: 6.997 2009-08-18 14:42:12
The U.S. Air Force has accepted the second Space Based Infrared Systems Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO-2) payload into operational service. This addition to the SBIRS inventory brings increased capability as Air Force Space Command's (AFSPC) second taskable infrared sensor. HEO-1 was accepted operationally November 7, 2008, and has continued to ...
USAF Awards LockMart Contract For SBIRS Follow-On Spacecraft
Relevance Score: 6.644 2009-06-15 16:46:08
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.5-billion contract for the third highly elliptical orbit (HEO-3) payload, the third geosynchronous orbit (GEO-3) satellite and associated ground modifications for the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) constellation. A contract to include a fourth HEO payload and possible fourth GEO satellite is expected ...
WGS-2 Winning Ways For Warfighters.
Relevance Score: 6.611 2009-09-02 19:53:23
The U.S. Air Force' U.S. Strategic Command has accepted command and control of its second Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) communication satellite, WGS-2. This significant achievement reflects the successful collaboration between numerous organizations, that include the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), Air Force Space Command, Army Space and Missile Defense ...
Satellite Launched By Missile Defense Agency.
Relevance Score: 6.603 2009-05-11 13:55:07
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency announced that The United States launched a satellite in order to detect and track missile flights. The launch took place at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with support from NASA and the private United Launch Alliance (U.S. Missile Defense Agency release, 5May). The action is ...
American Ballistic Missile Flight Tracking Satellite Put Into Orbit.
Relevance Score: 6.207 2009-05-15 18:15:15
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced, that the United States has launched a satellite intended to detect and track missile flights. The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Advanced Technology Risk Reduction (ATRR) satellite was launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. A small experimental satellite, named STSS ATRR ...
SAIC Supports SMC With Risky Biz
Relevance Score: 5.998 2009-10-08 20:09:18
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) has been awarded a delivery order by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to deliver technical analysis and risk assessments in support of SMC's Independent Readiness Review Team (IRRT). The delivery order has a one-year base period of performance, ...
Russia Developing New Missiles to Counter US System
Relevance Score: 5.574 2009-08-14 09:23:01
A top Russian military officer says his country is developing new missiles to counter space-based missile systems that could soon be deployed by the United States. Russian news agencies quote Air Force General Alexander Zelin as saying the new Russian missiles will also defend against airborne attacks. General Zelin, speaking to reporters ...
US Air Force Will Protect Space From Traffic.
Relevance Score: 5.471 2009-05-13 17:05:50
Space debris which could potentially damage communication networks will be tracked by the US Air Force (USAF) that will allocate more than half a billion dollars in fiscal 2010. A series of initiatives, budgeted at $506 million, designed to keep satellites safer from orbiting junk were presented by a senior Defense ...
Over 8 million $ contract for Boeing Satellite Systems
Relevance Score: 5.336 2009-04-08 08:24:19
Today the Air Force is modifying a fixed price incentive contract to Boeing Satellite Systems, Incorporated, El Segundo, Calif., for an estimated $8,105,000. This action will provide sustaining engineering for Post-Initial Operational Capability (IOC) of the Wideband Satellite System for Wideband Global Satellite (WGS)-25. At this time, the entire amount has been ...
Critical Missile Warning Payload For Second SBIRS Geo Satellite Delivered To Lockheed Martin
Relevance Score: 5.260 2009-04-21 00:26:04
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] announced today a major milestone on the United States Air Force's Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) with the successful delivery of the fully-integrated payload for the second geosynchronous orbit (GEO) spacecraft in the program constellation. The SBIRS program is created to provide early warning of missile launches, and ...
It's An Open Door Policy When It Comes To Vacuum Testing For SBIRS.
Relevance Score: 5.245 2009-10-02 22:17:18
The first geosynchronous Space Based Infrared Systems satellite completed its Open-Door Space Vehicle Thermal Vacuum Test, September 13th, at the development site in Sunnyvale, California. The testing established an ambient baseline and verified the test console interfaces. Completion of the open-door testing validates the configuration of the vehicle is ready ...
Seeing Red — Lockheed Martin's SBIRS Is Certifiable
Relevance Score: 5.232 2009-09-01 20:39:31
Great news for Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] informed that the second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO-2) payload and associated ground systems have been certified for missile warning operations by U.S. Strategic Command. SBIRS is created to deliver early warning of missile launches, and simultaneously support other ...
Lockheed Martin Achieves Key Integration Makes A Remarkable Progress on Second SBIRS Missile Warning Satellite.
Relevance Score: 5.201 2009-06-11 02:37:16
The Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) -led team developing the U.S. Air Force's Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) has successfully mated the spacecraft bus with the infrared sensor payload for the second geosynchronous SBIRS spacecraft (GEO-2). The payload preparation closely followed successful completion of spacecraft bus integration and safe-to-mate tests that included ...
'Can-Do' Attitude, and They Did! Department of Defense Space Test Program Celebrates 200 Missions.
Relevance Score: 5.140 2009-10-03 11:39:19
Celebrations and high fives are in order as the Department of Defense Space Test Program achieved a major milestone on September 10 when it flew its 200th mission. The Air Force Space Command’s (Space and Missile Systems Center) Space Development and Test Wing administers this DoD STP program. This 200th ...
Boeing Collaborates with U.S. Military on Space Situational Awareness
Relevance Score: 5.067 2009-03-13 22:00:37
Boeing and the U.S. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command have launched a joint research and development effort to coordinate and fuse multiple types of sensor data in a secure environment for integrated air and missile defense and space situational awareness concept exploration, Boeing announced March 12. Boeing, ...
SBIRS Secures Sign-Off By NGA
Relevance Score: 4.960 2009-09-01 12:48:37
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has informed the certification and acceptance of the Space Based Infrared Systems, Highly Elliptical Orbit data for use in support of technical intelligence missions. Mr. Dennis Lee, Chief, Overhead Persistent Infrared Systems for NGA, approved formal certification after a comprehensive review of test results at ...
SMC's SBIRS Success.
Relevance Score: 4.898 2009-08-18 17:18:37
The U.S. Air Force’s Space Based Infrared Systems Wing has successfully completed development of its Flight Software Subsystem, July 29, at the Lockheed Martin site in Sunnyvale. The completion of the FSS version 1.5 represents a major milestone for the SBIRS program. The software was developed over a 20-month ...
Space Command officials exceed GPS standard
Relevance Score: 4.846 2009-05-27 11:54:34
Air Force Space Command officials here maintain the Global Positioning System constellation that now has 30 operational satellites, six more than the standard. "I have high confidence we will continue to sustain at least the 24 satellites required to maintain our current performance standard," said Gen. C. Robert "Bob" Kehler, the ...
Missile-tracking Satellites Launched On Demo Flight.
Relevance Score: 4.831 2009-10-03 11:32:31
A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket roared to life and thundered away from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Friday, successfully boosting a pair of experimental missile-tracking satellites into orbit for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket blasts off from the Cape Canaveral ...
$49M to Concurrent for USAF Environmental Technologies Program
Relevance Score: 4.584 2009-06-18 11:02:02
The U.S. Air Force awarded a $49 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Concurrent Technologies Corp in Johnstown, PA to provide a research and development program entitled “Environmental and Energy Quality Technologies.” The program will use emerging materials, processes and new technologies to reduce and eliminate toxic and hazardous chemicals, materials, and ...
US-Europe missile defense won't work: think tank
Relevance Score: 4.488 2009-06-11 09:26:52
A planned US anti-missile system, hotly opposed by Russia, to defend Europe against the threat of missile attack from Iran would not work, a new study by a US-based think tank said Tuesday. The study by the New York-based EastWest Institute found the proposed system "will not provide dependable protection against ...
Fab Flight Tests For Boeing's FAB-T.
Relevance Score: 4.472 2009-10-02 22:32:45
Boeing's [NYSE: BA] Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) program has successfully conducted its first series of flight tests. The tests were the first demonstration of FAB-T's network-centric ability to connect satellite, airborne and ground assets in a realistic flight environment. Boeing is the prime contractor for Increment 1 ...
Ballistic Missiles Defeated with Airborne Laser (ABL)
Relevance Score: 4.251 2009-06-19 02:00:35
Ballistic missiles may soon become obsolete with the emergence of the YAL-1A Airborne laser (ABL) in service. A modified US air-force Boeing 747-400F has completed several tests that prove its ability to effectively down incoming ballistic missiles before they become a threat. Infrared systems will be able to track the ...
US to abide by Patriot missile deal with Poland
Relevance Score: 4.168 2009-06-12 09:21:49
The United States confirmed Thursday it still plans deploy a Patriot missile battery to Poland, regardless of what happens with plans for a European leg of the US missile defense shield. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said President Barack Obama was "committed to carrying out the terms" of a security agreement ...
More US military satelites
Relevance Score: 4.146 2009-04-06 17:49:22
The US military is planning to boost the number of satellites it routinely monitors for the risk of a smash-up with orbiting debris, like the recent collision between a US communications satellite and a defunct Russian probe. The US Air Force has catalogued more than 19,000 pieces of space debris larger ...
AMERICOM Government Services’ Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) Flies Through Critical Design Review
Relevance Score: 4.107 2009-03-22 00:28:14
Satellite solutions provider AMERICOM Government Services (AGS) and its partners Orbital Sciences Corporation and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) successfully completed the Space Segment Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) program. The CHIRP Flight Development program is designed to reduce risks in the development of ...
Missile Defense Satellite Awaits Test Deployment.
Relevance Score: 4.035 2009-06-26 01:45:12
The US government defense system contractor Northrop Grumman has recently informed that the second Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) satellite is prepared for operating and awaiting orders from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), as to its launch date. The classified military satellite will most likely join the first one, ...
Raytheon to Give Tomahawk a New Edge
Relevance Score: 3.917 2009-07-29 22:10:55
Last Friday, Raytheon scored a Navy contract worth more than $12.8 million to create a new warhead for the Tomahawk missile. Program officials with the company say the workhorse cruise missile will be fit with a warhead that can crack hardened targets and that could turn the Tomahawk into an ...
USAF Launches Satellite To Enhance Military Communications
Relevance Score: 3.846 2009-12-08 21:07:44
The U.S. Air Force successfully launched a new-generation military communications satellite from here at 8:47 p.m. (EST), when a Delta IV rocket carried a Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) into space. WGS satellites are designed to provide high-capacity communications to U.S. military forces. They will augment and eventually replace the Defense Satellite ...
United Nation Rule may be violated by North Korea satellite launch
Relevance Score: 3.825 2009-03-28 18:40:11
John J. Kruzel (the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) articulate regret over a potential North Korean satellite launch that could violate U.N. sanctions against nuclear testing by the government in Pyongyang. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said North Korea has threatened a launch not earlier then next week, and added ...
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