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Space Systems Command Launches Final Tranche 0 Satellites, Prototype HBTSS Birds

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Space Systems Command Launches Final Tranche 0 Satellites, Prototype HBTSS Birds
Northrop Grumman graphic representation of how Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) satellites are meant to operate and enable targeting of enemy missiles. HBTSS is one element of work the Golden Dome initiative plans to expand upon. (Image: Northrop Grumman).

U.S. Space Systems Command Wednesday evening launched the final four Tranche 0 satellites in the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) demonstration of low-Earth orbit capabilities for data transport and missile tracking, and the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) first two prototype spacecraft with sensors to evaluate warning and tracking of hypersonic and ballistic missile threats. The liftoff of the U.S. Space Force-124 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle…

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