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Digital Battlespace
Final Tranche 0 tracking satellites launched for US Missile Defense Agency
15th February 2024
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) initiated the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) programme in 2018 and in January 2021 awarded Other Transaction Agreements to L3Harris Technologies and Northrop Grumman for the creation of prototype systems.
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Digital Battlespace
US Space Defence Agency awards $2.5 billion for missile defence satellites
17th January 2024
The Tracking Layer (TL) will deliver a global constellation of infrared missile warning and missile tracking satellites. The constellation will consist of approximately 270 operational Transport and Tracking Layer satellites.
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Air Warfare
US hypersonic programmes to receive almost $7 billion in 2025
2nd April 2024
The investments in hypersonic capabilities, part of the US$9.8 billion fund the Pentagon requested for long-range fires, will cover several initiatives across all domains.
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Defence Notes
Why the US cannot overcome Russian and Chinese hypersonic weapons
19th April 2023
As hypersonic weapons do not follow a ballistic trajectory and can fly at low altitudes in addition to manoeuvring en route to their target, they challenge existing US defence systems.
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Defence Notes
GAO calls for MDA to change cost estimates
3rd February 2022
The US GAO has released a report pointing out that the MDA's cost estimates for systems that detect, track and defeat missiles are incomplete.
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Air Warfare
Hypersonic missile defence ‘difficult but tractable’, says CSIS
8th February 2022
At the current pace, the US may not field a glide-phase interceptor until the 2030s, but a new report from the CSIS indicates that this could be accelerated.
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Digital Battlespace
Space Development Agency orders more work on hypersonic missile tracking
16th December 2021
L3Harris and Moog Engineering will support work in the US to deliver LEO-based detection and tracking of hypersonic missiles.
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Defence Notes
HAWC makes strides with further flight tests planned
27th December 2021
Northrop Grumman continues to work on optimising the performance of US hypersonic missiles.
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Air Warfare
US MDA prepares hypersonic and ballistic missile defence
12th November 2021
Northrop Grumman has completed work for the US MDA on the development of satellites intended to track and target enemy missiles.
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Digital Battlespace
MDA unlocks key challenge to advanced ballistic missile tracking
18th June 2021
The US is progressing with its HBTSS project, having overcome an important obstacle.
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Digital Battlespace
L3Harris emerges at head of pack for HBTSS Phase IIa
18th January 2021
Contract for L3Harris includes launch and early orbit testing of a prototype satellite payload to detect and track hypersonic missiles.
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Digital Battlespace
Space Development Agency confirms Tracking Layer providers
8th January 2021
SpaceX and L3Harris to develop satellites for system to provide global indications, warning, tracking, and targeting of advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems.
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Digital Battlespace
Japan shows interest in hypersonic tracking
28th July 2020
Discussions are under way between the US and Japan on the latter joining the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS). Japanese media on 25 …
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Digital Battlespace
Northrop Grumman to carry out HBTSS work
4th December 2019
Northrop Grumman has received a place on the Phase IIa Prototype Payload Design and Signal-chain Processing Demonstration of the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Hypersonic and …
