Raytheon, Lockheed Martin get go-ahead to design Space Fence S-band space-surveillance radar

Someone was telling me about a supposed near miss of an asteroid in the past few weeks and I stumbled across this article.


HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass., 27 Jan. 2011. Space surveillance experts at the U.S. Air Force Electronic Systems Center (ESC) at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., are awarding two separate $107 million contracts to the Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems segment in Sudbury, Mass., and to the Lockheed Martin Corp. Mission Systems & Sensors (MS2) segment in Moorestown, N.J., to do preliminary designs for the Space Fence S-band radar system to detect orbiting space objects.

[link to www.militaryaerospace.com]

Last Edited by GTR on 02/02/2011 02:47 PM