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space Weapon Systems

Weapon systems and military equipment tagged space.

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Support Equipment

Transport, logistics, recovery, command, engineering, and other enabling equipment.

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Global Positioning System III / GPS Block III, Military navigation satellite family, Support EquipmentSupport EquipmentGlobal Positioning System III / GPS Block IIIMilitary navigation satellite familySide: 🏳️ UnspecifiedBuilt: Lockheed Martin Space Systems Corporation / United StatesGlobal Positioning System III / GPS Block III is the Lockheed Martin-built U.S. military navigation-satellite family that modernizes the GPS constellation with M-code, the L1C civil signal, improved accuracy, and stronger anti-jamming performance. It is the generation launched from 2018 onward before the GPS III Follow-On line, and it serves as a precision position, navigation, and timing space vehicle rather than a battlefield weapon in the catalog sense.
Space-Based Infrared System / SBIRS, Missile-warning satellite constellation, Support EquipmentSupport EquipmentSpace-Based Infrared System / SBIRSMissile-warning satellite constellationSide: 🏳️ UnspecifiedBuilt: Lockheed Martin / Northrop Grumman / United StatesSpace-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) is the U.S. Space Force's long-running space-based missile-warning constellation. Lockheed Martin built the system as the prime contractor with Northrop Grumman infrared payloads, combining geosynchronous satellites, highly elliptical orbit payloads, and a consolidated ground segment to detect missile launches and support battlespace awareness.
Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared / Next Gen OPIR, Missile-warning satellite family, Support EquipmentSupport EquipmentNext Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared / Next Gen OPIRMissile-warning satellite familySide: 🏳️ UnspecifiedBuilt: Lockheed Martin / Northrop Grumman / United StatesNext Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next Gen OPIR) is the U.S. Space Force's next-generation missile-warning satellite family. Lockheed Martin is building the GEO component on an LM 2100 Combat bus, Northrop Grumman is building the polar satellites, and the program is intended to replace SBIRS with more resilient infrared sensing for ballistic, hypersonic, and counter-space threats.
Transport and Tracking Layer, Proliferated low-Earth-orbit satellite architecture, Support EquipmentSupport EquipmentTransport and Tracking LayerProliferated low-Earth-orbit satellite architectureSide: 🏳️ UnspecifiedBuilt: Lockheed Martin / United StatesTransport and Tracking Layer is the Space Development Agency's proliferated low-Earth-orbit satellite architecture for resilient military data transport, missile warning, and missile tracking. Lockheed Martin is one of the major contractors across the family, with Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites launching in 2025 and Tranche 2/3 Tracking Layer awards expanding the constellation.
iSpace, Space situational awareness and command-and-control software suite, Support EquipmentSupport EquipmentiSpaceSpace situational awareness and command-and-control software suiteSide: 🏳️ UnspecifiedBuilt: Lockheed Martin / United StatesLockheed Martin iSpace is a U.S. space situational-awareness software suite for managing assets in orbit. Lockheed Martin says the system fuses optical, radar, infrared, and radio sensor data from government, commercial, and scientific networks to track objects, process space events, and support command-and-control and battle-management decisions for defense, international, commercial, and civil users. The German Space Agency selected iSpace for space situational awareness in 2021.