Industry, Laboratory Will Team Up For Early PTSS Satellite Development

By Courtney Albon / December 24, 2012 at 2:00 PM
The Missile Defense Agency last week issued new information about its search for industry expertise on the development of additional satellites for its space-based missile tracking system and how industry competitors and a five-laboratory team will work together to develop them. MDA spokesman Richard Lehner told Inside the Air Force in a Dec. 19 email that the laboratory team, led by Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab, is completing design work for the agency's first two Precision Tracking Space...

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