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Millennium Space Systems Reveals Previously Undisclosed DARPA Red-Eye Mission

By Rachel Jewett

Wednesday, July 20th, 2022

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Millennium Space Systems Reveals Previously Undisclosed DARPA Red-Eye Mission

A Millennium Space Systems Red-Eye spacecraft is launched from the ISS. Photo: Millennium Space Systems

Millennium Space Systems shared details of a previously unknown small satellite mission for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that tested crosslinks and on-orbit processing. Millennium Space Systems began the Red-Eye program — named for the bright red “remove before flight” cover used to keep the payload clean — in late 2015. The mission consisted of three small satellites launched from the International Space Station (ISS) in 2019 and 2020. The small satellites’ purpose was to demonstrate new avionics, communications devices, on-board…

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