ORS-5 mission to demonstrate rapid AQ, supplement SBSS capability

By Courtney Albon / August 24, 2017 at 4:01 PM
The Air Force is on track to launch Friday its fifth Operationally Responsive Space mission -- a Space-Based Space Surveillance System gapfiller satellite that service officials say will demonstrate a number of technology and rapid acquisition practices that can be incorporated into other space programs. If all goes as planned, the satellite will lift off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, at 11:15 a.m. Friday on an Orbital ATK Minotaur IV rocket. The payload is headed for low-Earth orbit,...

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