A communications issue with the Air Force's first Space Based Infrared Systems satellite in geosynchronous Earth orbit, identified last fall, will not impact next week's scheduled launch of the constellation's second satellite, according to service officials. Col. James Planeaux, director of the Infrared Space Systems directorate at the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), told reporters today that intermittent communications problems identified on SBIRS GEO-1 during a trial period last November have pushed the satellite's projected operational status into the...
