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Terran Orbital SAR Panels Being Used for Classified Efforts, CEO Says

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, September 26th, 2023

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Terran Orbital SAR Panels Being Used for Classified Efforts, CEO Says

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Terran Orbital [LLAP] has found DoD and/or intelligence community users for a set of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) panels that the company had been developing, company CEO Marc Bell said on Sept. 26. "We built one set of [SAR] panels and others, and they're being used for government customers," he said in a telephone interview. "PredaSAR did not go to waste." Terran Orbital did not finish building the two PredaSAR demonstration satellites, however. "The PredaSAR contract/award originally had several deliverables,"…

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