MDA Awards Lockheed Engineers for Satellite Shoot Down
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a team of engineers for defense contractor Lockheed Martin the Ronald W. Reagan Missile Defense Award for helping to shoot down an errant satellite in 2008. (Source)
Had the efforts not been successful, the satellite would have made an uncontrolled and unpredictable reentry.
President of Lockheed Martin’s Mission Systems and Sensors business unit Orlando Carvalho said, “The success of this effort was a direct result of the enduring partnership between our engineers and our customers. The tremendous adaptability of the Aegis Weapon System, especially our SPY-1D radar, allowed us to perform flawlessly in the execution of this new mission.”
The MDA’s Lt. Gen. Patrick J. O’Reilly said, “The success of this mission speaks to this team’s flexibility, ingenuity and drive to achieve the seemingly impossible. When the nation needed an extraordinary capability, they stepped up and delivered it.”
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