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The United States is actively preparing for increased threats from China and Rus...

New satellites will warn of rocket attack from space, being at an altitude of 35 thousand km

The United States is actively preparing for increased threats from China and Russia. Millennium Space Systems and Raytheon Technologies have completed the development of a project within the US Space Forces program aimed at improving the tracking of missile threats, Defensenws. com writes. Companies have created sensors to track missile threats with medium Earth orbit. Devices can be located at an altitude of 1. 9 to 35 thousand km above sea level.

The recent sensors have been audited recently, which is completed successfully. "Using the latest digital methods, we have finalized the key elements of the design in less than 18 months," said Raytheon Strategic Systems Executive Director Roger Cole. After checking the design and reference load, engineers will take the development of space and terrestrial segments of the missile tracking system. They will also develop a satellite that should become a wearer of the missile attack.

"The Missile Track Custody program is part of the Space Forces plan aimed at making orbital rockery and tracking missiles more resistant to increased threats from China and Russia. Today, these satellites are orbiting geosynchronous orbit - approximately 35 thousand km above Earth, or in highly elliptical orbit outside the geosynchronous orbit.

Due to Missile Track Custody, the service plans to launch satellites of warning and traffic to the Middle Earth orbit, where space sensors will be able to observe a larger territory, "the material reads. The Space Development Agency also launches a fleet from more than 100 satellites to low Earth orbit - 1. 9 thousand km above the equator.