The Pentagon will accelerate plans for a new space-based missile defense architecture if Congress increases funding in fiscal year 2021 for the Hypersonic Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program, which could allow the U.S. military to put the "kernel" of a totally new network on orbit by FY-22, according to a senior Defense Department official. Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear today said that the scheduled lag between deploying wide- and medium-field-of-view sensors in FY-22 and FY-23, respectively, could be closed...
