Northrop Grumman has teamed with Israeli Aerospace Industries to build and launch operational all weather, day/night surveillance satellites in “ responsive production cycle,” states a company release. The plan is to provide low-cost, rapid response—about 28 months—system that “complements both existing and US military and intelligence community capabilities being developed.”
The Space Development Agency says it’s on track to issue its next batch of missile warning and tracking satellite contracts this month after those awards were delayed by the Pentagon’s decision to divert funds from the agency to pay troops during this fall’s prolonged government shutdown.
