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The Space Force planned to build and launch three GEO-based and two polar-orbiting spacecraft, but its<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2023\/03\/14\/space-force-wants-to-trim-missile-warning-satellite-program\/\" target=\"_blank\"> fiscal 2024 budget would remove one geosynchronous, or GEO, satellite<\/a> from the constellation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lockheed Martin is building the GEO satellites and Northrop Grumman is developing the polar spacecraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its fiscal 2024 defense policy bill, released July 11, the Senate Armed Services Committee raised concerns about the service\u2019s decision, calling for a detailed analysis on the risk of eliminating one satellite would impact U.S. Strategic Command\u2019s missile warning mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAlthough the Space Force has stated that curtailing the program prior to execution of all three satellites would have little to no effect, the committee has not received comprehensive analysis to show that to be the case, nor assurances that this curtailment would have no effect on the Space Force\u2019s ability to meet STRATCOM requirements,\u201d the committee said in a report accompanying its bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told lawmakers in March that the service determined that a \u201ctwo-by-two\u201d constellation \u2014 meaning two polar and two GEO satellites \u2014 would be \u201csufficient to ensure that the mission did not have any gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawmakers in both the Senate and the House want documentation to back up that claim. In the House Appropriations Committee\u2019s FY24 spending bill, it calls for a similar report on the risks posed by launching just two GEO satellites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Appropriators said they are \u201ctroubled by the lack of analysis\u201d to support the service\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Space Force\u2019s move to shrink the size of its Next-Gen OPIR program comes as the service is changing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2023\/01\/13\/lawmakers-chart-middle-course-on-space-based-missile-warning-funding\/\">its approach to tracking missile threats from space<\/a>. It has traditionally operated these spacecraft from GEO, but as Russia and China develop hypersonic missiles that can travel and maneuver at Mach 5 speeds, the Space Force wants to strengthen its defense against those weapons by launching smaller satellites to more diverse orbits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 2021 review<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2022\/03\/28\/space-force-wants-40-budget-increase-as-it-looks-to-bolster-space-based-missile-warning\/\" target=\"_blank\"> by the Space Warfighting Analysis Center<\/a> recommended an expanded architecture that features smaller satellites in low Earth orbit, about 1,200 miles above the planet, and medium Earth orbit, which is located between LEO and GEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Space Development Agency and Space Systems Command are building those spacecraft under a program called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2023\/03\/22\/us-space-force-seeks-16-billion-to-track-hypersonic-missiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Resilient Missile Warning and Tracking.<\/a> The service\u2019s budget proposes $2.3 billion for the LEO and MEO satellites in fiscal 2024 and $16 billion through fiscal 2028. 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