Raytheon Co. [RTN] unveiled its Responder product, a rapidly deployable interchangeable, mission-specific sensor payload for satellites. The move comes as many military officers and analysts worry that some potential enemies such as China might use anti-satellite capabilities to destroy or disable U.S. and allied military, commercial and financial satellites, meaning that those space assets would have to be replaced very rapidly. Responder concept offers electro-optical and radio frequency payload configurations. Because the basic payload designs employ standard plug-and-play technology for…
National Space Symposium: Raytheon Offers Responder: New Sensors For Rapid Use On Satellites
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