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Congressional Appropriators Cut Epoch 1 Missile Warning/Missile Tracking to Account for Termination of RTX Contract

Congressional Appropriators Cut Epoch 1 Missile Warning/Missile Tracking to Account for Termination of RTX Contract
Photo is a Boeing depiction of Medium Earth Orbit Missile Track Custody satellites by Boeing's Millenium Space Systems

House and Senate appropriators are advising cutting the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC)'s Missile Warning/Missile Tracking Epoch 1 program for Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)--also known as Missile Track Custody, in part to account for SSC ending its contract with RTX [RTX] in May. SSC awarded contracts to RTX for three Epoch 1 MEO satellites and Boeing‘s [BA] Millenium Space Systems (MSS) for six, and, on May 31 last year, SSC awarded L3Harris Technologies [LHX] nearly $29 million–the third…

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