Pentagon Delays SBIRS Launches
The Pentagon has delayed fielding the missile-tracking Space-Based Infrared System even though some U.S. Space Command officials and members of Congress want the satellite constellation in place as soon as possible. The Air Force was supposed to launch the first SBIRS-High satellite in 2002 to...
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