First Next-Gen GEO-based missile warning satellite successfully completes environmental testing, on track for delivery to Space Force - MÖNCH PUBLISHING GROUP

First Next-Gen GEO-based missile warning satellite successfully completes environmental testing, on track for delivery to Space Force - MÖNCH PUBLISHING GROUP

Next-Gen OPIR will enhance global surveillance and early warning of missile threats The first of a new, more capable, more survivable missile warning satellite, designed by Lockheed Martin for today’s highly contested space domain, has successfully completed environmental testing. The first Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) Block 0 missile warning satellite recently completed thermal va…