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Artist illustration of the NOAA-20 Satellite. The Joint Polar Satellite System ( JPSS) is the latest generation of U.S. polar-orbiting, non-geosynchronous, environmental satellites. JPSS will provide the global environmental data used in numerical weather prediction models for forecasts, and scientific data used for climate monitoring.
Website. raytheonintelligenceandspace .com. Raytheon Intelligence & Space ( RIS) was one of the four business segments of U.S. defense and aerospace conglomerate RTX Corporation. [5] Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, RIS has a total employment of 39,000 and 2019 sales of US$15 billion. Roy Azevedo is the segment's president.
GPS Block III (previously Block IIIA) consists of the first ten GPS III satellites, which will be used to keep the Navstar Global Positioning System operational. Lockheed Martin designed, developed and manufactured the GPS III Non-Flight Satellite Testbed (GNST) and all ten Block III satellites. [7] The first satellite in the series was ...
Raytheon is a developer and manufacturer of radars (including AESAs ), electro-optical sensors, and other advanced electronics systems for airborne, naval and ground based military applications. Examples include: APG-63/APG-70 radars for the F-15 Eagle. APG-65/APG-73/APG-79 radars for the F/A-18 Hornet.
GPS, inertial navigation. Accuracy. 4 m (13 ft) CEP. The M982 Excalibur (previously XM982) is a 155 mm extended-range guided artillery shell developed in a collaborative effort between the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and the United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC). [6]
The Wideband Global SATCOM system ( WGS) is a high capacity United States Space Force satellite communications system planned for use in partnership by the United States Department of Defense (DoD), Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) and the Australian Department of Defence. [1] The system is composed of the Space Segment satellites ...
Low Earth orbit. Altitude. 1,350 km (840 mi) Inclination. 58.0°. Period. 120.0 minutes. The Space Tracking and Surveillance System ( STSS; formerly SBIRS-Low) was a pair of satellites developed by the United States Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to research the space-based detection and tracking of ballistic missiles.
AN/APQ-181. Light surface below wing edges is the AN/APQ-181 radar antenna. The AN/APQ-181 is an all-weather, low probability of intercept (LPI) phased array radar system designed by Hughes Aircraft (now Raytheon) for the U.S. Air Force B-2A Spirit bomber aircraft. The system was developed in the mid-1980s and entered service in 1993.