WASHINGTON – Lockheed Martin has built a scaled-down version of the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation space surveillance system in New Jersey as a way to test hardware and software for the Space Fence, the company announced March 28.
Lockheed Martin won a $914 million contract in June 2014 to build the Space Fence, an S-band radar which will be capable of tracking about five times as many objects — including much smaller objects — than current U.S. space surveillance assets can track. Lockheed will be installing the full-scale Space Fence radar on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Read more
Source: www.spacenews.com
