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USAF Test Center to Buy Telemetry Transmitters for Hypersonic Tracking

USAF Test Center to Buy Telemetry Transmitters for Hypersonic Tracking
A NASA Global Hawk sits at the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center in California's Mojave Desert. NASA use of Global Hawk for earth sciences testing began in 2009 (NASA Photo)

The U.S. Air Force Test Center (AFTC) at Edwards AFB, Calif., plans to buy telemetry transmitters for Edwards' RB-1B Data Lab in advance of hypersonic weapon testing. The data lab is a retired B-1B bomber for Air Force system integration tests. Ohio-based Quasonix supplies "telemetry transmitters, analyzers, receivers, and accessories"--"highly specialized components required to support the High-Speed Systems Test (HSST) program via the Universal Beamforming Telemetry (UBT) project," according to an Aug. 23 business notice. California-based Creative Digital Systems Integration,…

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