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U.S. Air Force / Lockheed Martin SBIRS Team completes on-orbit checkout of second HEO payload: Nation’s newest high-performance space-based sensor will deliver revolutionary new global surveillance capabilities to the warfighter
Jul 31, 2008 07:37

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 20th, 2008 — A joint U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin NYSE: LMT team announced today that it has successfully completed on-orbit checkout of the second Highly Elliptical Orbit HEO-2 payload in the Space Based Infrared System SBIRS constellation. SBIRS is designed to provide early warning of missile launches, and simultaneously support other missions including missile defense, technical intelligence and battlespace characterization. The SBIRS team is led by the Space Based Infrared Systems Wing at the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale, Calif., is the SBIRS prime contractor, with Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, Azusa, Calif., as the payload integrator. Air Force Space Command operates the SBIRS system.

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