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Air Force Decommissions CHIRP

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, December 11th, 2013

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Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (AFSMC) decommissioned the Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) Dec. 6, according to a service statement. The CHIRP sensor, designed and built by Leidos [LDOS] (formerly SAIC), was successfully launched Sept. 21, 2011, as a hosted payload on an SES commercial communications satellite built by Orbital Sciences [ORB]. CHRIP was designed for a one-year mission life. During the 27 months of operations, CHIRP accomplished all objectives by collecting over 300 terabytes (TB) of Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) data, enabling…

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