The United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command, Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program, successfully passed a major milestone, completing its Block 0 Geosynchronous Earth Orbit ...
The Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Program will be used to provide early missile warnings, replacing the Space Based Infrared System. (Mark Wright/Missile Defense Agency via AP) ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force’s fiscal 2024 budget proposes cutting one of five satellites from its Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared fleet, according to Chief of Space Operations Gen.
The Space and Missile Systems Center has asked industry to provide information on an enterprise classified information technology infrastructure to meet SMC’s collaboration, security and data access ...
The Senate Appropriations Committee wants to bring funding for a next generation early warning missile defense satellite system that will replace the Space-Based Infrared System to almost $2 billion. ...
The Pentagon has granted Lockheed Martin a $4.9 billion contract to build three missile-warning satellites for the U.S. Space Force. Parked in geosynchronous orbit, the next-generation satellites will ...
The U.S. Air Force is taking an incremental approach to fill a $625 million funding shortfall in the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program (OPIR), according to a senior service official ...
The fully assembled SBIRS GEO-5 missile warning satellite was moved into the thermal vacuum test chamber in preparation for launch later this year. Credit: Lockheed Martin Four years ago, Gen. John ...