The U.S. Army Sentinel A4 Program Office provided an accelerated contract award to Lockheed Martin to begin production for five additional radar systems developed specifically to detect and identify cruise missiles, unmanned aerial systems, rotary wing and fixed wing aircraft and rocket, artillery and mortar threats.
The Sentinel-5 Precursor platform and the TROPOMI instrument have been integrated to form the satellite which will be leaving the UK for testing. Airbus Defence and Space will deliver the spacecraft to Intespace in Toulouse, France, for final system level testing.
The Airbus Defence and Space built C-Band radar instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-1B satellite is on its way to ‘meet’ its spacecraft at Thales Alenia Space (TAS), Italy.