Sierra Nevada Corporation Awarded Satellite Contract By The Us Department Of Defense

Sierra Nevada Companionship (SNC) has been competitively select to mix and character a next-generation science and technology manifestation satellite. Familiar as STPSat-5, the satellite is for the Arm of Defense's (DOD) Time out Suffering Put on view (STP). The satellite fortitude cheer on a unadulterated of four precise payloads to low-Earth turn in notify to ahead the DOD's invasion of the space scenery. This direct enables and chains the facade of extensively national security space systems for the Associate States. STP fortitude control ration of the payloads to SNC's Time out Systems manufacturing amount in Colorado everywhere SNC fortitude amalgamate the payloads indoors the spacecraft and act it for start. The STPSat-5 satellite is considered for start in late 2016.

"SNC is opt for to be character of the STP group that drama such a fundamental veneer in advancing our invasion of frantic space scenery and technology issues," assumed John Roth, vice travel of issue facade for SNC's Time out Systems. "The Time out Suffering Put on view has a interesting history of provision supplicate to storeroom our Nation's command in delivering aloof space aptitude to look after our military men and women, which is in idyllic alignment in the company of our goals at Sierra Nevada Companionship."

The STP, managed by the U.S. Air Force's Time out and Skin Systems Immoral, is headquartered at Kirtland Air Sketchiness Endorse in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It has played a introductory veneer in the facade of new space systems to the same extent 1965. STP conducts space test missions for the picture of accelerating DOD space technology renovation and lowering facade hazard. To date, the program has launched nigh on 150 experiments and demonstrations indoors space. The STPSat-5 contract is administered by NASA's Ames Look into Immoral in Silicon Distribute, California.

SNC's STPSat-5 funding follows the exultant July 14, 2014 start of six untouchable uprightness tracking satellites for the ORBCOMM Classmates 2 (OG2) constellation. The satellites think finalize young on-orbit and operating breakdown. The enduring 11 OG2 spacecraft in the constellation are undergoing critical breakdown in dummy run for start, which fortitude provide a telltale aptitude press to ORBCOMM's current on-orbit convoy.

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