Is There A Requirement For A Second Space Based Space Surveillance System Satellite?

摘要

There is a requirement for this capability on orbit, and with the fairly short lifetime of the first satellite, there is certainly a requirement for a follow-on satellite. Whether there is a requirement for one or two more on orbit is what we are sorting our way through right now. So we're doing the planning right now to make sure we've got the discipline to ensure requirements won't need to be adjusted and that we aren't out there trying to hang something else on the next block for which there is not a hard, validated requirement. Those requirements will be based in part on the on-orbit performance of the first satellite, so we are very anxious to get that one on orbit.