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The WFOV satellite, being built by Boeing's Millennium Space Systems, is expected to launch this evening on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket, under the National Security Space Launch program.
A study by the Space Warfighting Analysis Center that determined a multi-layered network of satellites in Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO), highly-elliptical polar orbit, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) is necessary to provide comprehensive ballistic and hypersonic missile warning and tracking.
Brig. Gen. Jason Cothern, Space Systems Command (SSC) deputy, told Breaking Defense that about $400 million of the new funds, if appropriated, would go procurement of a new MEO constellation as one part of multi-layered hypersonic missile tracking.
Space Force budget gets a big boost to $24.5B in FY23, focus on resilience The FY23 request is $7 billion more than the $17.4 billion the service asked for...
The two Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) prototypes will launch in spring 2023, beginning several months of on-orbit testing.