
Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit-6 (SBIRS GEO-6), the final SBIRS satellite, is ready for launch early next year, as the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) and Lockheed Martin [LMT] said that construction finished ahead of schedule. Col. Matt Spencer, the GEO/Polar Division Senior Materiel Leader in SSC’s Production Corps, said in a Sept. 29 statement that the hastened production at Lockheed Martin's Sunnyvale, Calif., plant "is nothing short of remarkable given the entire integration and test…