{"id":6788,"date":"2019-10-24T08:03:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T07:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spazio-news.it\/?p=6788"},"modified":"2019-10-25T13:19:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T12:19:11","slug":"northrop-built-missile-tracking-satellites-reach-10-year-on-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spazio-news.it\/?p=6788","title":{"rendered":"NORTHROP: BUILT MISSILE TRACKING SATELLITES REACH 10 YEAR ON ORBIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northropgrumman.com\/Capabilities\/STSS\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Space Tracking and Surveillance System &#8211; STSS satellites<\/a> built by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northropgrumman.com\/\">Northrop Grumman<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mda.mil\/\">US Missile Defense Agency &#8211; MDA<\/a> have far <strong>surpassed their four-year on-orbit<\/strong> design life, completing a tenth year of <strong>space operations<\/strong>. Still in operation today, the <strong>STSS satellites<\/strong> continue to provide critical support for <strong>missile<\/strong> and <strong>national defense<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSTSS proved that space-based assets could significantly improve our nation\u2019s missile defense capability and paved the way for future systems. Being able to track missiles from low Earth orbit allows threats to be engaged earlier in the process using existing interceptors<\/em> &#8211; said at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spazio-news.it\/\">Spazio-News Magazine<\/a> <strong>Bob Mehltretter, vice president, military and civil space, Northrop Grumman<\/strong>. <em>Northrop Grumman is leveraging all the experience we gained from our legacy OPIR &#8211; Overhead Persistent Infrared systems, STSS, DSP &#8211; Defense Support Program, and SBIRS &#8211; Space Based Infrared System, to develop our nation\u2019s future OPIR programs\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two STSS satellites<\/strong> were launched into low Earth orbit in <strong>2009<\/strong> and proved the operational value of <strong>space-based precision<\/strong> mid-course <strong>ballistic missile tracking<\/strong>. The <strong>Space Tracking &amp; Surveillance System<\/strong> has tracked <strong>ballistic missiles<\/strong> through all phases of flight and in <strong>2013<\/strong> demonstrated the <strong>launch on remote capability<\/strong>, which significantly expands the <strong>defended<\/strong> area of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navy.mil\/navydata\/fact_display.asp?cid=2100&amp;tid=200&amp;ct=2\">Navy Aegis<\/a> cruiser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Tracking and Surveillance System &#8211; STSS satellites built by Northrop Grumman for the US Missile Defense Agency &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7],"tags":[3618,16,3193,3125,3616,3617],"class_list":["post-6788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prima-pagina","category-news-dal-mondo-en","tag-ballistic-missile","tag-defence","tag-missile","tag-northrop-grumman","tag-space-tracking-and-surveillance-system-stss-satellites-northrop-grumman","tag-us-missile-defense-agency-mda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NORTHROP: BUILT MISSILE TRACKING SATELLITES REACH 10 YEAR ON ORBIT &#187; 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