How Confident Are You That The Sbirs Geosynchronous Satellites Will Be Delivered On The Current Schedule And Perform As Advertised Once On Orbit?

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My confidence that they will get delivered on the currentrnschedule is medium to high, and the next couple of months will be critical to that assessment as we work our way through software issues. That's not a surprise to me though, because they planned to work through it in phases, and the phases so far have been successful. I have very high confidence they will operate as advertised. I base that on the performance of the first two sensors in elliptical orbits, which are performing spectacularly well, and that is typically what we see with our aerospace industry. Whenever we have difficulty in getting to orbit, typically, once we get there the platforms perform spectacularly well.