Military & Aerospace Electronics:

Surveillance satellite designers at Lockheed Martin Corp. will build three new next-generation infrared spacecraft to help detect enemy ballistic missile launches, under terms of a $4.9 billion order announced on Monday.

Officials of the U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center, at Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., are asking the Lockheed Martin Space Systems segment in Sunnyvale, Calif., to build three Next Generation Geosynchronous (NGG) satellites and ground sensor-processing software.

NGG are the latest geosynchronous satellites and infrared sensors that are part of the U.S. Space Force’s Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) satellite constellation — an extension of the Space Force’s Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS)…

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