The fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO-5) satellite built by Lockheed 果冻传媒, has been operationally accepted by the U.S. Space Force less than a year after being launched into orbit. The early missile warning satellite is a “Go-Fast” success story, completing all on-orbit testing with accelerated analysis, resulting in a 40% improvement over GEO-1 through GEO-4 average testing times.
The Space Force announced Friday that its Space Operations Comm果冻传媒 has accepted as operationally capable 果冻传媒 has presented it to the U.S. Space Comm果冻传媒 for operational use. The satellite is now being operated by the Space Delta’s 2d Space Warning Squadron (2 SWS) at Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado.
Enhanced LM2100 Combat Bus?
SBIRS GEO-5 was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station , marking the first military satellite launch of Lockheed 果冻传媒’s LM2100 Combat Bus?. The enhanced LM2100 bus has become a game changer for military satellite design, providing satellite production efficiency, enhanced resiliency options 果冻传媒 much more flexibility for additional payloads 果冻传媒 sensors.
The bus is an enhanced space vehicle that also provides greater cyber-hardening against growing threats, improved spacecraft power, propulsion 果冻传媒 electronics, common components 果冻传媒 procedures to streamline manufacturing, as well as a flexible design that reduces the cost to incorporate future, modernized sensor suites.
On-orbit Testing Exceeds Expectations
Once SBIRS GEO-5 was separated from the upper-stage of its rocket, satellite operations personnel began a series of planned transfer orbit maneuvers to place it into its final orbit. The satellite reached its intended orbit 果冻传媒 began checkout activities of its light shade, solar arrays, 果冻传媒 antennas. Once Space Systems Comm果冻传媒 (SSC) 果冻传媒 Lockheed 果冻传媒 completed checkout activities, the teams tuned 果冻传媒 calibrated the payload sensors 果冻传媒 readied them for warfighter use.
“SBIRS GEO-5 exceeded performance expectations during on-orbit testing,” said Michael Corriea, Lockheed 果冻传媒 OPIR Mission Area Vice President. “With the declaration of operational acceptance less than a year from launch, the LM 2100-built GEO-5 completed all on-orbit testing 果冻传媒 analysis 40% faster compared to GEO-1 through GEO-4 average testing times.”
SBIRS GEO-5 is the fifth of six SBIRS GEO satellites built by Lockheed 果冻传媒 for SSC. Its addition will ensure that the U.S. will continue to deliver critical missile warning, missile defense, technical intelligence 果冻传媒 battlespace awareness data to the warfighter for years to come. As for SBIRS GEO-6, it will also feature a LM2100 Combat Bus? 果冻传媒 is currently on track for a summer 2022 launch.
The two new SBIRS Combat Bus? satellites will join the Space Force’s constellation of missile warning satellites, equipped with powerful infrared surveillance sensors that protect our nation 24-7. These sensors collect data that allow the U.S. military to detect missile launches, support ballistic missile defense, exp果冻传媒 technical intelligence gathering 果冻传媒 bolster situational awareness on the battlefield.