To realize the capacity of humans to alter many global processes. To recognize the limits and finiteness of the Earth’s resources To better understand the complex interactive nature of the many processes that produce To help our students discover the origin and development of the universe, our planet,Īll plant, and animal life including, and especially, humans Our Earth Science Department programs have many common objectives: Its portfolio includes the Global Positioning System, military satellite communications, defense meteorological satellites, space launch enterprise, satellite control networks, remote sensing systems, and space situational awareness capabilities.The Earth Science Department houses five separate programs: Anthropology, Astronomy, Geography, Geology, and Sustainable Technologies. Air Force Space Command's center of excellence for acquiring and developing military space systems. SMC, located at Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, California, is the U.S.
The SBIRS system enhances global missile launch detection capability, supports the nation’s ballistic missile defense system, expands the country’s technical intelligence gathering capability and bolsters situational awareness for warfighters on the battlefield. The 460th Space Wing at Buckley AFB in Aurora, Colorado, operates the SBIRS constellation. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale, California, is the SBIRS prime contractor, and Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, Azusa, California, is the payload integrator. SMC’s Remote Sensing Systems Directorate manages the SBIRS program. During the review, the Remote Sensing Program Office formally declared Lockheed Martin had demonstrated the design maturity required to authorize the continuation of all manufacturing and integration efforts for both satellites. The CDR was led by SMC’s Remote Sensing Systems Directorate at the Lockheed Martin production facility in Sunnyvale, California, and attended by observers from Air Force Space Command, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisitions, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, and the Lockheed Martin Corporation. It celebrated the launch of its first GEO satellite and is scheduled to launch its fourth GEO satellite in January 2018.
The SBIRS program is the follow-on to the Air Force’s 47-year-old Defense Satellite Program and delivers timely, reliable, and accurate missile warning and infrared surveillance information to the president, warfighters, intelligence community, and other key decision makers.
#SMC GEO 5 UPDATE#
However, through a technical refresh update to the A2100 bus, they will eliminate older components and utilize modern electronics to add new capability and increase reliability. GEO-5 and GEO-6 have similar designs to the first four GEO satellites to allow for cost savings. “These improvements will ensure that the SBIRS constellation continues to provide the military readiness and deterrence capabilities that our nation and its leaders rely upon.” Dennis Bythewood, director of SMC’s Remote Sensing Systems Directorate.
“The biggest improvement to GEOs 5 and 6 is resiliency, a key component of the Space Warfighting Construct initiative that will ensure our ability to maintain space superiority into the 21st century,” said Col. GEO-5 and GEO-6 are tentatively scheduled for delivery in 20, respectively. The successful CDR marks the capstone event, culminating 18 months of lower level reviews, which authorizes the next two satellites in the Space Based Infrared Systems constellation to enter into manufacturing and integration phase. The Space and Missile Systems Center’s Remote Sensing Systems Directorate and prime contractor, Lockheed Martin Space Systems, successfully completed a system Critical Design Review for the Geosynchronous Earth Orbiting satellites GEO-5 and GEO-6 on Sept.
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