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Lockheed Delivers Subsystems For SBIRS Geo-2 Satellite

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Monday, January 5th, 2009

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Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] delivered the spacecraft bus subsystems for the emergent Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite, Lockheed announced. It will be the second geosynchronous orbit (GEO-2) satellite in the system. The GEO-2 spacecraft core structure and propulsion subsystem was recently completed and the high-performance communications subsystem for the spacecraft was delivered in early December. Developed and tested at Lockheed Martin facilities in Newtown, Pa., and delivered to its Space Systems Co. subsidiary in Sunnyvale, Calif., the communications subsystem will…

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