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U.S. Space Force Gives Go Ahead to Raytheon and Boeing Payload Designs for MEO Missile Tracking Competition

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, November 30th, 2022

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U.S. Space Force Gives Go Ahead to Raytheon and Boeing Payload Designs for MEO Missile Tracking Competition

Notional image of a SBIRS satellite based on the LM 2100 Combat Bus™ (illustration by Lockheed Martin).

The U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) has conducted two critical design reviews for Missile Track Custody (MTC) Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Overhead Persistent Infrared Sensor (OPIR) payloads by Raytheon Technologies [RTX] and Boeing's [BA] Millenium Space Systems. SSC said that both company's designs are on schedule. Lt. Col. Gary Goff, materiel leader for strategic payloads in SSC's space sensing directorate, said in a statement that "the CDRs proved the sensors' designs are mature, and we can move from…

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