Space Fence radar installation to start this month

By Courtney Albon / April 7, 2017 at 7:00 AM
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- Lockheed Martin and the Air Force completed shipment of the new Space Fence radar to Kwajalein Atoll in March and plan to begin installation at the radar site this month. The program had planned to begin shipment last summer, but construction delays pushed that start date to December, Inside the Air Force previously reported . Bruce Schafhauser, Lockheed's Space Fence director, told ITAF April 5 that with all of the components now on site,...

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