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Millennium Space Systems Completes CDR for Missile Track Custody Space Vehicle

By Rachel Jewett

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

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Millennium Space Systems Completes CDR for Missile Track Custody Space Vehicle

Millennium Space Systems completes the CDR for its Missile Track Custody program.

Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing [BA] company, has achieved the critical design review (CDR) for its Missile Track Custody (MTC) space vehicle. Millennium announced the CDR on Tuesday, less than a year after it received authorization to proceed. The MTC program is part of Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Space Sensing Resilient Missile Warning, Missile Tracking, Missile Defense (MW/MT/MD) program office. The program is pursuing small satellites in Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) for missile warning. Millennium’s CDR included review for the full space…

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