U.S. Air Force Readies Competition for Clone of SBSS Block 10

摘要

As the U.S. Air Force prepares for a scheduled July launch of a satellite designed to keep tabs on objects in geostationary orbit, the service is gearing up to hold a competition to build a follow on spacecraft that will essentially be a carbon copy of the first.rnThe first Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite is in storage at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s facilities in Boulder, Colo.