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Space Sensors Most Significant Challenge in Hypersonic Defense, CSIS Report Says

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Space Sensors Most Significant Challenge in Hypersonic Defense, CSIS Report Says
Navy Vice Adm. Jon A. Hill, director, Missile Defense Agency, and Michelle C. Atkinson, MDA director for operations, brief the press on President Biden’s fiscal 2022 defense budget on May 28 last year (DoD Photo)

Developing space sensors for detection and tracking is the most significant challenge for the budding U.S. hypersonic missile defense effort, according to a new Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report. The U.S. Space Force looks to develop and field the Northrop Grumman [NOC] Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) constellation, while the Space Development Agency (SDA) is working on its tracking and transport layers, to help defeat Chinese and Russian hypersonic missiles. The nation's current ballistic missile…

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