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Space

Lockheed Martin’s Space Fence System Detects Debris from Indian ASAT Test

By Vivienne Machi

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019

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Lockheed Martin’s Space Fence System Detects Debris from Indian ASAT Test

Aerial view of Space Fence facility in Kwajalein Atoll. Lockheed Martin photo

A new Air Force system built by Lockheed Martin [LMT] that is still technically in testing helped to detect the breakup field from India’s recent anti-satellite test during a scheduled exercise, the company said May 22. Once operational, the service’s new Space Fence surveillance system will detect and track satellites and space debris in orbit. But it already began tracking objects from the April anti-satellite test during a scheduled endurance exercise of the new radar, Lockheed Martin said in a…

Congress

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Army

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