![]() ![]() ![]() Lockheed Martin reports that the vehicle features fast satellite operations greater resiliency and cyber-hardening enhanced spacecraft power, propulsion and electronics common components and procedures to streamline manufacturing and a flexible design that reduces the cost to incorporate future, modernized sensor suites. In addition, SBIRS GEO-5 will be the first military satellite to employ the company’s new modular and modernized satellite bus, the LM 2100. “In 2019 alone, SBIRS detected nearly one thousand missile launches, which is about a two-fold increase in two years.” “SBIRS’ role as an ever-present, on-orbit guardian against global ballistic missile threats has never been more critical,” said Tom McCormick, Lockheed Martin’s vice president for Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Systems. The service’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Production Corps at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, and industry partner Lockheed Martin Space, in Sunnyvale, California, prepared the important warning system in record time. Space Force deemed complete the high priority program satellite, which will provide worldwide missile warning capability to the U.S. The fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite, known as SBIRS GEO-5, is ready for launch in 2021. ![]()
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