Out in Front on ORS

摘要

MicroSat Systems is in a vastly different position today than in spring 2003, when the U.S. Air Force canceled TechSat 21, the program that led to the company's founding two years earlier. Technology incubator ITN Energy Systems created MicroSat after winning the contract to build the three tiny radar-equipped satellites, which were supposed to fly in formation to demonstrate the concept of distributed collection apertures. While TechSat 21 proved too challenging, MicroSat was able to apply the experience in building TacSat-2, one of a new series of satellites designed to show how low-cost space systems can be deployed quickly to support troops in the field.