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U.S. Space Force Awards for MEO Missile Tracking Spacecraft Total $605 Million

U.S. Space Force Awards for MEO Missile Tracking Spacecraft Total $605 Million
U.S. Space Force 1st Lt. Laura Drapinski, 2d Space Warning Squadron, front, and Spc. 4 Ariana Gonzalez, 11th Space Warning Squadron, back, use a Space-Based Infrared System Simulator to monitor missile indications during simulated combat operations in United States European Command during SPACE FLAG 23-1 at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo. on Dec. 13 last year (U.S. Space Force Photo)

U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded Raytheon Techologies’ [RTX] Intelligence & Space and Boeing’s [BA] Millennium Space Systems $605 million to design, build and deliver the first two prototype Missile Track Custody spacecraft for Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) under the Space Force Resilient Missile Warning/Missile Tracking program. Lt. Col. Gary Goff, materiel leader for Space Layer Resilient Missile Warning/Missile Tracking at SSC's Space Space Sensing Directorate at Los Angeles AFB, Calif., wrote in an email that SSC executed an…

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