Lockheed Martin receives $915 million AF Space Fence contract

Defence and Security

The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin Corp a contract award worth around $915 million to examine the huge junkyard of debris revolving the Earth.

It includes millions of objects such as dead satellites, lost astronaut appliance and spent rocket stages from space missions within the last half century presently fly around the planet at great speed.tender

Lockheed is targeted with establishing a surveillance system called “Space Fence” that will monitor the Earth’s atmosphere and allow the U.S government to trace such objects caught in Earth’s gravitational pull.

To clean up the space debris, efforts have been discussed within the global community, in the past but according to the experts they need to know what objects are revolving the planet as well as what kind of danger it can raise.

The Air Force officials says, that the “Space Fence” would now gear the experts with a took to trace and spot much larger pieces of orbiting debris.Read complete story at http://www.tendersontime.com/blog-detail/lockheed-martin-receives-915-million-af-space-fence-contract-125.php