WASHINGTON– The U.K. Ministry of Defense granted agreements to Lockheed Martin and Rhea Group to establish satellite control systems for the country’s future remote-sensing constellation.
The awards revealed recentlyeach worth about $2.5 million, become part of the U.K. MoD’s ISTARI job, a next-generation constellation of intelligence, monitoring, and reconnaissance (ISR) satellites in low Earth orbit.
The U.K. federal government in 2022 revealed strategies to invest about $1 billion in the ISTARI program over 10 years. The ISR satellites are predicted to introduce in between 2026 and 2031.
Lockheed Martin UK and Rhea will establish contending objective systems to manage ISTARI satellites, and to handle and process information.
UK ‘developing out area community’
Lockheed Martin UK is the U.K.-based arm of Lockheed Martin Corp. and has in current years broadened its collaboration with the U.K. federal government on area programs such as area launch activitiesRhea Group is an innovation services company based in Belgium that likewise runs in the United Kingdom.
Eric Brown, vice president for objective technique and advanced abilities at Lockheed Martin, stated the business is seeking to grow its military area organization in the U.K. It is contending not just for tasks under ISTARI however likewise challenging Airbus in the $7 billion next-generation Skynet 6 tactical interactions satellite program.
“The United Kingdom today is developing out their total area environment to a level that they have not in the past,” Brown stated.
Sandra Erwin discusses military area programs, policy, innovation and the market that supports this sector. She has actually covered the military, the Pentagon, Congress and the defense market for almost 20 years as editor of NDIA’s National Defense …
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