Once again… “…designed to replace the 1990s-developed Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) program, which notoriously faced a series of severe cost overruns and schedule delays, with the final satellite in that constellation only to be launched in 2022.”
We’ll see. We knew it was off the rails back in 2004 while I was working systems security at the Boulder facility when the original LEO constellation was cancelled. Even then, it was hard for a technically competent engineer to imagine how the integration effort for such a system could ever succeed at scale.
Guess we’ll try again. If there is one thing certain, this government does not learn from it’s mistakes.
I was wrong about GEO-6, assuming it would not even finish getting built. Now waiting to see if it flies.