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USAF selects SSL to study polar orbiting weather satellite system

Submit on Thursday, March 28th, 2013 22:56

Space Systems/Loral has been selected to study the feasibility of accommodating next-generation U.S. military weather systems on commercial polar orbiting satellites. SSL will examine options for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to lower its cost to replace the legacy Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, through the use of alternative architectures such as equipping commercial satellites with advanced meteorological sensors.

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