Pentagon Eyes Sensors For New MDA Constellation

Credit: Chinese Hypersonic Missile: Wikipedia Commons
The Pentagon would focus on developing payload sensors in fiscal 2020 for a future satellite constellation intended to track hypersonic glide vehicles to combat China and Russia, a senior official said. The Space Sensor Layer, formerly dubbed the Missile Defense Tracking System, kicked off in...

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