{"id":84868,"date":"2011-05-10T22:26:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T14:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/northrop-grummans-stss-satellites-pass-mda-airborne-exercise\/"},"modified":"2011-05-10T22:26:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T14:26:57","slug":"northrop-grummans-stss-satellites-pass-mda-airborne-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/northrop-grummans-stss-satellites-pass-mda-airborne-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman\u2019s STSS Satellites Pass MDA Airborne Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Northrop Grumman\u2019s <\/strong>Space Tracking and Surveillance  System (STSS) demonstration satellites completed an Airborne Laser Test  Bed exercise as part of a <strong>U.S. Missile Defense Agency <\/strong>(MDA) development program for future satellite defense systems, Northrop Grumman announced.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; During the test, the STSS demonstration satellites produced quicker  responses to targets, as the MDA increased its performance requirements  from previous tests, according to Gabe Watson, vice president of missile  defense and missile warning programs for Northrop Grumman\u2019s Aerospace  Systems sector. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;The STSS track sensor was cued significantly faster than in  previous tests, which was required with this scenario. STSS generated a  track with the acquisition sensor and autonomously passed the track to  the multi-band track sensor for the first time against a missile target.  The system performed very well, without operator control, and provided  high-quality track data to the ground station,&#8221; Watson said in a  statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northrop Grumman\u2019s Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites completed an Airborne Laser Test Bed exercise as part of a U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) development program for future satellite defense systems, Northrop Grumman announced. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; During the test, the STSS demonstration satellites produced quicker responses to targets, as the MDA increased its performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}