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Final SBIRS Satellite Ready for Launch Early Next Year

Frank Wolfe

Monday, October 4th, 2021

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Final SBIRS Satellite Ready for Launch Early Next Year

The Lockheed Martin SBIRS GEO-6 satellite at the company's Sunnyvale, Calif. plant (Lockheed Martin Photo)

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…

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