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Collins: First Test Of Space-Based Hypersonic Sensors Within A Week, MDA Starting New Look At Airborne Lasers

Collins: First Test Of Space-Based Hypersonic Sensors Within A Week, MDA Starting New Look At Airborne Lasers
Northrop Grumman graphic representation of how Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) satellites are meant to operate and enable targeting of enemy missiles. HBTSS is one element of work the Golden Dome initiative plans to expand upon. (Image: Northrop Grumman).

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) expects the first flight test using a pair of prototype space-based hypersonic sensors to occur within a week while also starting to look at a new airborne laser program. “We're getting ready for our first hypersonic testbed calibration flight within a week, where we are going to take a hypersonic test bed target and launch that and, for the first time, have both of those sensors tracking and looking to see how they're doing and…

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