El Pent\u00e1gono (DoD \u2013 USA) a trav\u00e9s de la Space Development Agency (SDA), ha seleccionado las 3 empresas que fabricar\u00e1n la Nueva Generaci\u00f3n de Sat\u00e9lites para el seguimiento de misiles, que sean capaces de detectar y seguir la trayectoria de los modernos misiles hipers\u00f3nicos, actualmente en desarrollo por pa\u00edses como Rusia y China. Las empresas Lockheed Martin. L3Harris y Sierra Space, deber\u00e1n construir 54 sat\u00e9lites (18 cada una de ellas), para integrar los mismos al programa \u201cProliferated Warfighter Space Architecture\u201d. El contrato acordado es por un monto de US$ 2500 millones y en Abril del 2027 los primeros sat\u00e9lites empezar\u00edan a operar en \u00f3rbita baja y en su capa de funcionamiento y seguimiento asignada.<\/p>\n
The Pentagon has picked the builders of a big chunk of its next-gen missile-tracking satellites, but the effort to detect Chinese and Russian hypersonic missiles depends on funds in the not-yet-passed 2024 defense budget.<\/p>\n
L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, and Sierra Space will build 18 satellites each for the\u00a0Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture<\/a>, with awards totaling $2.5 billion: $919 million for L3Harris, $890 million for Lockheed, and $740 million for Sierra Space, the Space Force\u2019s acquisition arm\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/p>\n This is\u00a0Sierra Space<\/a>\u2019s first contract with the Space Development Agency, and marks the entrance of a new major supplier in the satellite market. The contest was \u201creally competitive,\u201d and a total of nine companies offered bids to build these satellites, an SDA official told reporters January 16.<\/p>\n Each company will build 16 missile warning and tracking satellites to detect ballistic and hypersonic missiles, and two \u201cpreliminary fire control<\/a>\u201d satellites, which track hypersonic missiles in greater detail and carry more sophisticated infrared sensors to collect data to feed to interceptors that can shoot down missiles.<\/p>\n