SpaceX Wins Contract to Build Missile Tracking Satellites

[Husky_Khan]

Musk's SpaceX wins Pentagon award for missile-tracking satellites

SpaceX, known for its reusable rockets and astronaut capsules, is ramping up satellite production for Starlink.

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The contract is for the construction of four missile tracking satellites for the US Space Development Agency at a cost of 149 million dollars which will contain a sensor made by a third party contractor.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Musk's SpaceX wins Pentagon award for missile-tracking satellites

SpaceX, known for its reusable rockets and astronaut capsules, is ramping up satellite production for Starlink.

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The contract is for the construction of four missile tracking satellites for the US Space Development Agency at a cost of 149 million dollars which will contain a sensor made by a third party contractor.

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[TomJo]

A lot of things are being launched into space now. Soon it will be necessary to do general cleaning in orbit. Are there any special means for this? Or will we continue to hope that the disabled satellites will burn up in the upper atmosphere? There is much debris that can harm new missions.

 

[Doomsought]

Anything that can de-orbit obselete satelites can also de-orbit enemy satelites, so it is up to whomever gets the balls to toss out the outer-space treaty first.

 

[TomJo]

As far as I know, no one has yet abandoned the treaty on outer space. Nevertheless, such equipment is being developed in completely different countries. Japan, Britain, USA, New Zealand ... the list goes on. Of course, the development is being carried out by private companies, not national space agencies. And this, apparently, makes such developments incompetent or inoperative in your opinion?

 

[Doomsought]

Of course, the development is being carried out by private companies, not national space agencies. And this, apparently, makes such developments incompetent or inoperative in your opinion?

Let me put it this way: Whomever has the balls gets to wear the pants.

 

[TomJo]

Roskosmos was developing a nuclear space tug. And it seems like many were against it.
But this is about government space agencies.
And in private space companies, the development of space tugs is in full swing.
Of course, these tugs are smaller and have to fulfil slightly different tasks.
But these developments may lead us to something more interesting.
If you can maintain and correct the trajectory of the satellites you can make them more useful. But, perhaps, we will have to come up with something like the ISS for space tugs.

 

[TomJo]

I can give you an example.
Space Tug | Skyrora
This small device has already been tested in recent trials in Scotland.
It is curious that many space debris removal devices have a fundamentally different concept. From sails and cable systems to extravagant ideas like recycling garbage into fuel for scavenger flights.
All this is being developed to solve the problem of Kessler syndrome. I wonder if this is true or a cover for something else?