Space Force, DoD agencies planning multi-orbit sensor network to track hypersonic missiles

June 22, 2021

Space News:


The U.S. Space Force last month selected Millennium Space Systems and Raytheon to design sensors that can track hypersonic missiles from medium Earth orbit.  

If successful, sensors in medium orbits could become a new addition to the United States’ layered missile defense system that currently includes ground, sea-based and space sensors. 

A multi-orbit network of space sensors that can detect and track both ballistic and hypersonic missiles is a goal now being pursued by the U.S. Space Force, the Defense Department’s Space Development Agency and Missile Defense Agency…



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